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Tara D. Hudson; Alyssa N. Rockenbach – Journal of College Student Development, 2025
Friendships that cross social boundaries foster the development of important civic and prosocial attitudes among college students. The present study complements and extends prior quantitative findings with qualitative description, in college students' own voices, of the learning and growth that take place within boundary-crossing friendships,…
Descriptors: Friendship, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Diversity
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Watt, Sherry K.; Mahatmya, Duhita; Coghill-Behrends, William; Clay, Daniel L.; Thein, Amanda Haertling; Annicella, Christine – Journal of College Student Development, 2021
Society can no longer ignore the deep roots of racism in American life, culture, and institutions. This truth became more evident when the world witnessed the brutal murder of George Floyd by police officers in May 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd's murder represents multilayered trauma--mass deaths from the virus, a disproportional number of…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Organizational Change, Educational Change, Attitude Change
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King, Patricia M.; Perez, Rosemary J.; Barber, James P. – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
This descriptive qualitative study used longitudinal data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education to examine patterns in the development of self-authorship among the 175 undergraduate college students who participated in both the first and fourth years of the study. We found that the meaning making of 81% of the participants…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Undergraduate Students, Student Development, Racial Differences
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Christyn Dolbier; Sarah Vanacore; Alia Simon; Taylor L. Stallings; Jordan Signorelli; Kelsey M. Dietrich – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
This study sought to identify levels and types of positive changes experienced during the pandemic and determine whether different patterns of positive changes existed across academic years. In this repeated cross-sectional mixed methods study, different samples of undergraduate students at a large, public university were recruited in Fall…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Undergraduate Students, Stress Variables
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Chang, Yu-Heng; Liu, Ruo-Lan; Li, Yu-Chi – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
We investigated the relationship between overseas service-learning experiences and the change in global perspectives of 157 Taiwanese college students by using the Overseas Service-Learning Experience Scale and the Global Perspective Scale. The outcomes of students who participated in overseas service during Summer 2015 were analyzed. Findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Study Abroad, Perspective Taking
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Taylor, Kari B.; Baker, Amanda R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
Scholars and practitioners alike often assume that discomfort is a necessary and productive aspect of the college experience. We used a range of theories grounded in the concept of dissonance to question these assumptions and critically analyze the role of discomfort in collegiate learning and development for today's diverse college student…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Development, Psychological Patterns, Role