College Plans Research Articles

Leading from reactive whirlwind to integrated strategy

PHILADELPHIA — In the midst of all the change and challenges facing higher education and college sports, it's common for athletics administrators to feel like they’re rushing from one of many most urgent pressing tasks to the next, leaving little time to intentionally focus on strategizing for the future. It's a conundrum all‐too‐familiar to Lynn Akey, Ph.D., Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin Parkside. But she's found a better way, which she discussed in her presentation at the Society for College and University Planning's annual conference.

College for All and the Struggles to Make It Work: Community College Student Feedback Data on Obstacles to College Completion

Background/Context: There is a misalignment in contemporary society between the assumption that all high school graduates can and should attend college and the lack of funding and support to make that happen. This is especially apparent at community colleges that enroll disproportionally low-income students, who deal with a variety of obstacles including a lack of family support, academic issues, and financial struggles. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The aim of this project is to better understand the life circumstances that contribute to students dropping out of community college before completing a degree. Research Design: I surveyed community college students on precollege planning, in-college experiences, and reasons for leaving before earning a degree. I assessed the associations of these circumstances with dropping out, using Pearson Chi-square tests, and applied logistic regressions. Conclusion/Recommendations: Students who dropped out of college were less likely to discuss their college plans with their parents; they struggled academically and financially and found themselves isolated and without assistance more often than those who stayed.

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Decision Support System for Strategic Planning in Educational Organization: A Survey

Strategic planning models and the provision of information for decision making in complex strategic circumstances are research topics of great interest. This research addresses the issue of supporting strategic planning decision-making in educational foundations by building a Decision Support System (DSS) to be used by decision-makers in carrying out their strategic planning process, the DSS is integrated in the entire organisation's information system database. This research provides an overview of DSS, the college planning process, the development of DSS through the use of artificial intelligence, and a framework for planning activities at different levels of the organisation to develop strategic plans. Based on the strategic planning process model, a DSS framework is proposed, along with decision support approaches for various DSS modules. DSS provides the best support (at individual, group, and organisational levels) for all stages of strategic planning decision-making. By applying DSS, it is possible to create more perfect circumstances to achieve sustainable future-orientated institutional goals.

St. Thomas More College

As a Catholic college federated with the University of Saskatchewan, St. Thomas More College (STM) benefits from the arrangements negotiated at its founding by the Basilian Fathers. When the Basilians withdrew from STM in 2013, the College entered a new relationship with its diocesan bishop, but continues to steward the educational culture created by its founders. Now under lay leadership and with an increasingly diverse community, STM faces the dual challenge of renewing its Catholic identity and remaining a sustainable liberal arts college. In its current College Plan, it lays out a strategy for doing both while also engaging with the national work of Indigenous reconciliation.

Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences, and Adjustment Process

Abstract We exploit a large exogenous shock to study the formation, and updating, of educational plans, and to examine how these plans ultimately impact later educational attainment. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German adolescents before and after the German Reunification (a change for the East from state socialism to capitalist democracy), and using differences across cohorts induced by the timing of Reunification, we show that shortly after relative to before that time, college plans among high-school students increased substantially, which was followed by sizable increases in the completion of the college entrance certificate 5 years later. To shed light on the underlying mechanisms, we analyze the elasticity of youths’ beliefs and preferences with respect to the large shock. Perceived educational returns and risk, economic preferences (“consumerism”) and social preferences (“individualism”) adapt quickly and are directly linked to changes in plans and outcomes. Cohorts closer to critical educational junctions at the time of Reunification, however, adjusted their plans to a much lesser extent. While they similarly updated the expected returns to education, they exhibited a slower adjustment in their preferences relative to younger cohorts.

A Dream Deferred: Post-Traditional College Trajectories and the Evolving Logic of College Plans

ABSTRACT Despite high college expectations and enrollments among young people, their trajectories through higher education have become increasingly complex. Even after initially starting as “traditional” students, many college graduates are only able to complete a bachelor’s degree after a series of stops and starts across multiple institutions. While there is a growing body of research regarding nontraditional students, we know very little about how these individuals make sense of their trajectories. This qualitative study draws on interviews with 40 college graduates who attained a bachelor’s degree following an extended and interrupted path. We consider how these individuals, who we define as post-traditional graduates, come to understand the value of college, distinguishing between the moral value, referred to as the expressive logic, and more practical and economic explanations, referred to as the instrumental logic. Our study found that an instrumental logic characterized the beginning of their college journeys, but what sustained our participants over time was an expressive logic: an evolved understanding of college as a process conferring personal development and moral worth.

Process Considerations for Strategic Planning: Phase #2, Clarification and Goal Orientation

Assessment UpdateVolume 35, Issue 3 p. 3-16 Editor's Notes Process Considerations for Strategic Planning: Phase #2, Clarification and Goal Orientation Caleb J. Keith, Caleb J. KeithSearch for more papers by this authorStephen P. Hundley, Stephen P. HundleySearch for more papers by this author Caleb J. Keith, Caleb J. KeithSearch for more papers by this authorStephen P. Hundley, Stephen P. HundleySearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/au.30345Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. References Hinton, K. E. 2012. A Practical Guide to Strategic Planning in Higher Education. Society for College and University Planning. Suskie, L. 2014. Five Dimensions of Quality: A Common Sense Guide to Accreditation and Accountability. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass. Volume35, Issue3May/June 2023Pages 3-16 ReferencesRelatedInformation

A socioscientific issues approach to ninth-graders' understanding of COVID-19 on health, wealth, and educational attainments.

This study investigated the implementation of a curricular unit of instruction designed to immerse rising ninth-grade students socioscientific issues via data collection and analysis of the relationships between health, wealth, educational attainment, and the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on their communities. Twenty-six (n = 26) rising ninth-grade students (14-15 years old; 16 girls, 10 boys) participated in an early college high school program operated by the College Planning Center at a state university in the northeastern United States. The findings of this study demonstrate how ninth-graders enhanced their understanding of the relationships between COVID-19 and community health, wealth, and educational attainments. The students also identified from their research data that communities in Massachusetts that are more educated and with more financial resources were less impacted less by the virus.

A Differences-in-Differences Analysis of the Impact of the North Carolina Fixed Tuition Program on College Costs

ABSTRACT In 2016, the North Carolina legislature implemented the North Carolina Fixed Tuition Program. This policy ensures that, once enrolled, an undergraduate student’s tuition rate at any of the state’s four-year public colleges will not increase for eight consecutive semesters of enrollment. While touted as an effort to increase affordability by helping students financially plan for college, prior research has found that these policies prompt institutions to raise the cost of attendance for undergraduate students. This study expands previous work on institutional pricing responses to tuition guarantee programs by both extending inquiry to another state context and by examining changes to revenue streams not included in prior work. Using differences-in-differences and event study approaches, I found that institutions in North Carolina increased in- and out-of-state graduate tuition rates and out-of-state undergraduate tuition rates in the wake of the Fixed Tuition Program.

대학 신입생들의 대학생활적응에 영향을 미치는 요소

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the college adjustment of freshmen who have been through the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop strategies for improving academic programs. The results indicated that the factors influencing college adjustment were high school type, academic major, college dropout plan, and sense of belonging to the university. Specifically, students who wanted their major as their top priority showed higher adjustment to college life than students whose major was undetermined, and students who did not plan to drop out showed higher adjustment to college life than students who planned to drop out. In addition, it was analyzed that the more they felt a sense of belonging to the university, the better they adjusted to college life. In particular, the sense of belonging to the university was found to be the most influential factors affecting college adjustment. This study suggested that it is necessary to establish a support system(e.g., FYE) and expand various programs to help students.

Proposed Development Plan for College of Education in Mabini Colleges, Inc.

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The Relationship Between College Students' Interpersonal Relationship and Mental Health: Multiple Mediating Effect of Safety Awareness and College Planning.

The research intends to find the internal influence mechanism of interpersonal relationship on college students' mental health. College students have many mental health problems, which can easily lead to extreme events. It is of great research value to explore the relationship among interpersonal relationship, safety awareness, college planning, and mental health. GHQ, WHOQOL-BREF, SWBS-CC, LSIB, and TSCS scales were used, revised questionnaire for cluster sampling of college students, 1661 valid samples. SPSS 26.0 and PROCESS V4.1 were used for analysis, and nonparametric Bootstrap method was used to test the significance level of the mediating effect. There are significant differences in interpersonal relationship, safety awareness, and college planning between high mental health group and low mental health group. There are differences in safety awareness between genders. There is a positive correlation among interpersonal relationship, safety awareness, college planning, and mental health. Interpersonal relationship has a positive predictive effect on mental health. There are three mediating pathways of interpersonal relationship on mental health: independent mediating effect pathway of safety awareness, independent mediating effect pathway of college planning, and chain mediating effect pathway through safety awareness and college planning. This study reveals the Influence mechanism of interpersonal relationships on college students' mental health. The relationship between interpersonal relationship and mental health is affected by the multiple mediating effects of safety awareness and college planning. It provides a new perspective for preventing and intervening mental health problems. College students' personality has plasticity, which can be interfered by mediating mechanism. The present findings could help college students actively participate in interpersonal communication, improve safety awareness, and make a good college planning, so as to enhance the mental health level of college students.

OPTIMIZATION OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL TO REALIZE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THROUGH ORGANIZATIONAL STRESSORS

This research is important for the achievement of the college plan because at PGRI University Adi Buana Surabaya is also developing student cooperatives and employee cooperatives so that business sustainability occurs that can educate employees and students to get to know cooperatives and entrepreneurship. This study aims to test the influence of intellectual capital on emotional intelligence through organizational stressors as an intervening variable for cooperative actors in Surabaya. This study analyzes how intellectual capital plays a role in optimizing organizational stressors and emotional intelligence and how organizational stressors play a role in optimizing the emotional intelligence of cooperative actors in Surabaya. Some variables are analyzed as factors that affect emotional intelligence, namely intellectual capital and organizational stressors. This study is a type of explanatory study, reviewed from its analytical approach and classified into quantitative methods. The population of this study is all cooperative actors in Surabaya, and the sample is determined based on accidental techniques. Sampling in this study used Ferdinand's formula with the number of samples used as many as 156 people. The data was collected through questionnaires and analyzed using SEM (semantic equation modeling). This research is useful for the development of human resource management science. This study showed that intellectual capital has a significant and positive effect on organizational stressors, and intellectual capital has a significant and positive effect on emotional intelligence. In contrast, organizational stressors have insignificant and negative effects on emotional intelligence. The Cooperative is expected to solve or fix the cooperative actors' organizational stressors to solve the cooperative actor's problems.

Impact of the Tips From Former Smokers Anti-Smoking Media Campaign on Youth Smoking Behaviors and Anti-Tobacco Attitudes.

Anti-tobacco media campaigns can prevent youth smoking, but there is little research on how adult-targeted campaigns affect youth. We investigated the association between the Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign and youth smoking behaviors and anti-tobacco attitudes, and variation by sex, race and/or ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. We used data from the monitoring of the future study, a nationally representative survey on 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, from 2013-2015. Quartiles of Tips gross rating points (GRPs) were used to estimate exposure. Youth smoking behavior outcomes included smoking prevalence, initiation, and susceptibility. The anti-tobacco attitude outcomes included the extent that anti-tobacco ads made participants (1) less favorable towards smoking or (2) less likely to smoke cigarettes. Modified Poisson regression models estimated average marginal effects; separate additive interactions between Tips GRP exposure and sex, race and/or ethnicity, parents' highest education, and college plans (12th graders only) were used to test for effect modification. Tips GRPs were not associated with smoking behaviors within any grade. However, 12th graders in the highest quartile of Tips had a 7.0 percentage point higher probability (95% CI = 0.023-0.116) of responding that anti-tobacco ads made them less likely to smoke. Tips GRPs were associated with a lower probability of past 30-day smoking prevalence among 10th grade females, but not males (joint P-value = .002). No additional statistically significant interactions were found for any other outcomes for any grade. This study revealed the potential for adult-targeted campaigns to increase youth's anti-smoking attitudes, but campaign exposure was not associated with smoking behaviors. Few studies have examined the potential for anti-smoking media campaigns to influence audiences outside their targeted audience. In this study, we show the potential for adult-targeted campaigns to impact youth and suggest that Tips exposure may promote anti-smoking attitudes among youth.

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Tobacco 21 laws may reduce smoking and tobacco-related health disparities among youth in the U.S

The goal of our study is to understand the impact of Tobacco 21 (T21) laws on youth smoking and health equity. We conducted modified Poisson regression models using 2014–2019 Monitoring the Future data to measure the impact of attending school in a county 100% covered by a T21 law versus counties with <100% T21 coverage on past 30-day smoking participation (n = 262,632), first cigarette smoking initiation (n = 189,698), and daily smoking initiation among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders (n = 214,496), separately. Additive interactions were tested between T21 coverage and sex, race/ethnicity, parental education, and college plans. T21 coverage was associated with a lower likelihood of smoking participation among 12th graders. T21 coverage was most strongly associated with a lower likelihood of smoking participation among: Hispanic and NH (Non-Hispanic) Other/Multiracial individuals; respondents with parents who had less than a college education; and respondents who were not definitely planning on attending college. T21 laws were associated with a lower likelihood of smoking participation among 12th graders. T21 policies were most impactful for individuals disproportionately impacted by tobacco, indicating T21 laws might help reduce tobacco-related health disparities.

‘Make sure we don’t lose who we are’: young Black men navigating the college choice process at majority-Black high schools

ABSTRACT Based on a case study of two majority-Black public high schools in a highly segregated American school district, the article employs a critical intersectional framework to examine the experiences of ten college-aspiring young Black men as they navigate the college choice process. Findings indicate that working-class Black male students are less likely to have access to college-going resources and social networks than their middle-class peers. However, a well-resourced school that affirms Black identity may increase agency and help crystallize college plans among working-class Black male students. In contrast, the study found that more institutional academic structures constrain agency and channel working-class Black male students towards under-resourced colleges where they are less likely to thrive.