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Bas T. Agricola; Fiona Veraa; Mieke van Diepen; Louise Elffers – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students' participation in a preacademic program and the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Student Experience
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Su, Mengwei; Harrison, Laura M. – Journal of International Students, 2016
Using academic capitalism as a theoretical foundation, this phenomenological study examined the new study abroad experiences of Chinese college students in six popular English-speaking study destination countries--the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Qualitative data collected from 20 interviews indicate some…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Experience, Asians, Foreign Students