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Bordering on Normal: Dissolving Honors Boundaries
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Morrison, Lucy – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2021
First-year students faced unprecedented challenges while transitioning from high school to university in fall 2020. The coronavirus crisis, economic downturn, social unrest, and a rapid and massive shift to remote learning altered their world in fundamental ways. This essay describes the response of one honors program toward providing extra- and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Honors Curriculum, Student Needs, Social Problems
Part of the "Establishment"? Fostering Positive Campus Climates for Student Activists
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Broadhurst, Christopher; Martin, Georgianna L. – Journal of College and Character, 2014
Using data from the Wabash National Study, authors examine how students' perceptions of campus climate influence growth in students' social and political activism. The goal of this article is to determine to what extent, if any, students' perceptions of the campus environment affect their orientation toward social/political activism over 4 years…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Environment, Environmental Influences, Activism
When You Listen this Is what You Can Hear; Gordon Sabine Raps with 1603 Students for the American College Testing Program; Teenagers Tell about their Parents, Schools, Teachers, and Student Protest.
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1971
The Youthpoll questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 5,241 students who had taken the ACT battery of tests in the 1969-70 school year. One thousand six hundred and three students responded to open-end questions concerning their attitudes, opinion and feelings regarding their parents, their teachers and schools, and student protest. Most of…
Descriptors: Activism, College Bound Students, Higher Education, Parents