College Plans Research Articles

Build a strong community of adult learners to benefit the whole campus

CHICAGO — The University of California, Santa Cruz is facing a tough few years going forward. With state tuitions frozen for the next few years and yearly costs increasing 6 percent, searching for out‐of‐the‐box strategies to increase enrollment‐based state funding and tuition revenue has been a forefront project for the campus. In a session at the annual convention for the Society of College and University Planning, Tyrus Miller, vice provost for UCSC; Peggy Delaney, vice chancellor of planning and budget for UCSC; and Alison Galloway, Ph.D., campus provost and executive vice chancellor for UCSC, laid out their plan for increasing master's and doctoral student enrollment from 10 to 15 percent of campus enrollment by 2020.

Download 7 cheap or free apps to transform your office

CHICAGO — In a packed session at the annual conference of the Society of College and University Planning, Beth Ziesenis, consultant, author and technology expert, demonstrated a handful of free or cheap apps designed to increase personal efficiency and work‐life balance. Here are seven apps to download now for increased productivity and safety.

Build a strong community of adult learners to benefit the whole campus

CHICAGO — The University of California, Santa Cruz is facing a tough few years going forward. With state tuitions frozen for the next few years and yearly costs increasing 6 percent, searching for out‐of‐the‐box strategies to increase enrollment‐based state funding and tuition revenue has been a forefront project for the campus. In a session at the annual convention for the Society for College and University Planning, Tyrus Miller, vice provost for UCSC; Peggy Delaney, vice chancellor of planning and budget for UCSC; and Alison Galloway, Ph.D., campus provost and executive vice chancellor for UCSC, laid out their plan for increasing master's and doctoral student enrollment from 10 to 15 percent of campus enrollment by 2020.

Combat emergencies by fostering community relationships

CHICAGO — On March 14, 2014, Touro University in Las Vegas was faced with a nightmare situation: a gunman on campus. Craig Seiden, vice president for finance and administration at Touro; and Diane Waryas, associate vice president for institutional effectiveness, recounted the lessons learned from the incident as well as the strategic safety procedures already in place that led to the successful surrender of the gunman with no casualties or shots fired. They spoke at a session at the annual conference for the Society for College and University Planning.

Build a better team by engaging creative strengths

CHICAGO — As a campus safety official, you constantly work on projects with teams. Without the proper understanding of the different creative styles your team members possess, you cannot tap the full potential of your team or manage the complicated dynamics that come from many different types of creative styles. In a session led by June Hanley during the annual convention for the Society for College and University Planning, participants were led through an exercise based on The Five Faces of Genius by Annette Moser‐Wellman and given instructions on how to create a well‐rounded team that takes advantage of different creative styles. Hanley outlined the following five types of creativity:

Build a better team by engaging creative strengths

CHICAGO — As a disability services provider, you constantly work on projects with teams. Without the proper understanding of the different creative styles your team members possess, you cannot tap the full potential of your team or manage the complicated dynamics that come from many different types of creative styles. In a session led by June Hanley during the annual convention for the Society for College and University Planning, participants were led through an exercise based on The Five Faces of Genius by Annette Moser‐Wellman and given instructions on how to create a well‐rounded team that takes advantage of different creative styles. Hanley outlined the following five types of creativity.

Combat emergencies by fostering community relationships

CHICAGO — On March 14, 2014, Touro University in Las Vegas was faced with a nightmare situation: a gunman on campus. Craig Seiden, vice president for finance and administration at Touro; and Diane Waryas, associate vice president for institutional effectiveness, recounted the lessons learned from the incident as well as the strategic safety procedures already in place that led to the successful surrender of the gunman with no casualties or shots fired. They spoke at a session at the annual conference for the Society for College and University Planning.

Download 7 cheap or free apps to transform your office

CHICAGO — In a packed session at the annual conference of the Society of College and University Planning, Beth Ziesenis, consultant, author and technology expert, demonstrated a handful of free or cheap apps designed to increase personal efficiency and work‐life balance. Here are seven apps to download now for increased productivity and safety.

Download 7 cheap or free apps to transform your office

CHICAGO — In a packed session at the annual conference of the Society of College and University Planning, Beth Ziesenis, consultant, author and technology expert, demonstrated a handful of free or cheap apps designed to increase personal efficiency and work‐life balance. Here are six apps to download now for increased productivity and safety.

Build a strong community of adult learners to benefit the whole campus

CHICAGO — The University of California, Santa Cruz is facing a tough few years going forward. With state tuitions frozen for the next few years and yearly costs increasing 6 percent, searching for out‐of‐the‐box strategies to increase enrollment‐based state funding and tuition revenue has been a forefront project for the campus. In a session at the annual convention for the Society for College and University Planning, Tyrus Miller, vice provost for UCSC; Peggy Delaney, vice chancellor of planning and budget for UCSC; and Alison Galloway, Ph.D., campus provost and executive vice chancellor for UCSC, laid out their plan for increasing master's and doctoral student enrollment from 10 to 15 percent of campus enrollment by 2020.

Download 7 cheap or free apps to transform your office

CHICAGO — In a packed session at the annual conference of the Society of College and University Planning, Beth Ziesenis, consultant, author and technology expert, demonstrated a handful of free or cheap apps designed to increase personal efficiency and work‐life balance. Here are seven apps to download now for increased productivity and safety.

Instrumental and Expressive Education

Nearly all young people in the United States aspire to a college degree, but many fail to complete college in a timely manner. Does this lack of attainment reflect abandoned college plans? I analyze mixed-methods data from a five-year study of 700 low-income mothers at two Louisiana community colleges. Hurricane Katrina displaced respondents and interrupted their college educations; respondents had to decide whether, how, and why to return to school. Few women earned degrees during the study, but survey data indicate that the rate of reenrollment and intentions to complete were high. Interview data reveal the cultural logics supporting continued plans for a return to college. Instrumentally, respondents believed education would result in better employment. Expressively, the moral status afforded students supported respondents’ narratives of upward mobility despite the difficulties they faced. The logic of human capital investment dominates policy and academic discussions of education’s value, but I find the symbolic meaning of a college degree also shapes plans for college return and college decision making long into adulthood. Plans to return persist long beyond the objective probability of earning a degree, and despite respondents’ difficult experiences, due to the expressive value college plans add to these young women’s lives.

Spanish‐Speaking Immigrant Parents and Their Children: Reflections on the Path to College

Immigrant parents in a new cultural setting may experience both structural and individual barriers, which complicate the process of helping their children plan for college. Focus group interviews were conducted with 15 Spanish‐speaking immigrant parents to highlight their perceptions and experiences. Critical humanism frames a counseling response to these concerns.

Stay late or start early? Experimental evidence on the benefits of college matriculation support from high schools versus colleges

The summer melt and academic mismatch literatures have focused largely on college-ready, low-income students. Yet, a broader population of students may also benefit from additional support in formulating and realizing their college plans. We investigate the impact of a unique high school-university partnership to support college-intending students to follow through on their college plans. Specifically, we facilitated a collaborative effort between the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the University of New Mexico (UNM), and randomly assigned 1602 APS graduates admitted to UNM across three experimental conditions: (1) outreach from an APS-based counselor; (2) outreach from a UNM-based counselor; or (3) the control group. Among Hispanic males, who are underrepresented at UNM compared to their APS graduating class, summer outreach improved timely postsecondary matriculation, with suggestive evidence that college-based outreach may be particularly effective. This finding is consistent with the social-psychological literature showing that increasing students’ sense of belonging at college can improve enrollment outcomes.

Gove faces test on rights plan

Plans for a 320-place secure college and changes to human rights legislation top the justice agenda

An Education Gradient in Health or a Health Gradient in Education? Education and Self-Rated Health from Age 15 to Age 31

There is a positive gradient relating educational attainment and health, yet the causal direction of the gradient is not clear. Does higher education improve health — an education gradient in health? Or do the healthy become highly educated — a health gradient in education? This study evaluates the direction of the gradient by tracking changes in educational attainment and self-rated health (SRH) from age 15 to age 31 in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97). Ordinal logistic regression confirms that there is a health gradient in education: that is, high-SRH adolescents are more likely to become highly educated, partly but not entirely because adolescent SRH is associated with adolescents’ academic performance, college plans, and family background. Fixed-effects longitudinal regression shows that, once initial advantages in SRH are controlled, individuals who complete higher levels of education experience little improvement in their SRH. Completion of a high school diploma or associate’s degree has no effect on SRH at age 31, while completion of a bachelors or graduate degree have effects that, though significant, are quite small (less than 0.1 points on a 5-point scale). While it is possible that educational attainment would have greater effect on health at older ages, at age 31 what we see is primarily a health gradient in education, not an education gradient in health.

The Development of College Instructors’ Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge

The ministry of education is launching an overall project to implement the use of ICT in the Israeli higher education institutes, as well as in the elementary through high schools. In the 2011-2012 academic year. Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education was chosen to receive support from the ministry of education to participate in this project. The project goals are to facilitate the ICT integration into teaching on all its aspects; i.e. facilities and instructors. The goal of the research was to accompany the implementation of the college plan and intervention, especially the steps which the college carried out regarding the instructors’ preparation and support, with a research that primarily examines the development of the instructors’ TPACK (technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge) and its various components, in addition to the instructors’ attitudes toward computers and instructors’ ICT proficiency. For this purpose we translated to Arabic and modified existing questionnaires developed by the MOFET institute and by previous researches.The findings of the research indicate that instructors and pedagogical supervisors in Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education had relatively high positive attitudes toward computers before the college intervention. These attitudes did not change significantly after the intervention. The instructors’ ICT proficiency improved significantly after the college intervention especially as a result of three components of this intervention: ICT center support, participation in workshop and availability of assistants. The TPACK level of the instructors and the pedagogical supervisors, improved after the college intervention. Another major change occurred in the number of pedagogical initiatives that involve special use of ICT in teaching proposed by the pedagogical supervisors, going up from only one before the college plan to at least six initiatives this year. Moreover, the number of WBLE (web based learning environments) constructed by the pedagogical supervisors and presenting ICT based learning units that they developed by themselves or with their students in the practical training increased from only two at the beginning of the college intervention to over thirty toward the end.

Momentum Trumps Intention: Failed Intentions Toward Higher Education of Low-Wage Working Women

Two longitudinal studies examined the effects of explicit intention, as described in Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behavior, on preschool teachers’ success in enrolling in college. In the first study, 88 low-wage female teachers and teachers’ aides who represented 85 child care centers were surveyed about their intentions to pursue college within the following 2 years. Momentum trumped intention. Participants already in school were likely to continue, but those who intended to enroll largely did not. In the second study, 34 preschool teachers were interviewed in-depth about their plans for college, and then re-interviewed 2 years later. Intentions were derailed because of financial and health problems, as well as disillusionment with the field of preschool education. The few who fulfilled their intentions to enroll found fully-funded programs and continued in the field of education. Financial support, as well as career counseling, are key for programs designed to encourage nontraditional students.

Parental involvement in college planning

Purpose– The purpose of this article was to describe Hossler and Gallagher’s (1987) college choice model and emphasize the predisposition phase of the model as the starting point for school counselors’ efforts to help African American parents foster their children’s college planning in the college choice process.Design/methodology/approach– The authors wrote this manuscript as a conceptual approach to helping school counselors work with African American parents in their children’s college planning process by including two case studies as examples.Findings– This is a conceptual article.Practical implications– School counselors should be culturally competent and aware of how African Americans rear their children to help them successfully navigate college planning. For example, school counselors can learn about and share information with families about colleges that have support programs assisting African American students toward college completion.Originality/value– This paper is important to the field of education as it contributes to the literature regarding how school counselors can assist students in becoming college and career ready by working with their parents using a college choice model.

Nonresponse bias in a longitudinal measurement design examining substance use across the transition out of high school

BackgroundIntensive longitudinal methods are used to study the daily-level, within-person associations between substance use and its predictors and consequences. By definition, these designs require greater respondent effort than more traditional longitudinal designs, the result of which may be increased unit nonresponse and, more importantly, nonresponse bias. The present study contrasts the nonresponse properties of a measurement burst design with those of a single 1-year follow-up (“control”) design, with a particular emphasis on the retention of young adults who did not plan to graduate from college. MethodsHigh school seniors (N=318) from three Midwestern schools completed an in-school baseline survey in spring 2012. Respondents were then randomized into a measurement burst or control group. Four, eight, and twelve months after baseline, young adults in the measurement burst group received a 30-min follow-up web survey, followed by 14 days of web-based daily surveys. Young adults in the control group received only a 30-min follow-up web survey 12 months after baseline. Response rates, predictors of nonresponse, and relative nonresponse biases for measures of sociodemographics, college plans, and substance use were compared between the two measurement groups. ResultsCompared to the control design, the measurement burst design had greater relative nonresponse bias for statistics measuring substance use, but lower relative nonresponse bias for the statistic measuring college plans. ConclusionIntensive longitudinal methods have the potential to retain non-college attending young adults during the transition to adulthood. Nonresponse adjustment weights should be used to correct for any detected bias.