Today's College Students Research Articles

Today's College Students' Aesthetic Mechanisms from an Algorithmic Re-domestication Perspective

The emergence of short video platforms has undeniably brought about a significant transformation in society. The process of re-domestication involves the adaptation of individuals' interactions with and utilization of previous technologies. The advent of the internet and the subsequent proliferation of novel social media platforms have engendered a plethora of new societal impacts. Social media platforms, including TikTok, are believed to have a substantial influence on the aesthetic preferences of college students. The choice to re-domesticate the media is a rebellion against the more anxiety-inducing aspects of society. It is apparent from casual conversations that present-day university students exhibit a discerning mindset when confronted with aesthetic unease stemming from TikTok algorithms. Individuals continue to prioritize their initial choices and demonstrate this through practical application, thereby reconfiguring the algorithms to align with their personal aesthetic tastes. A significant proportion of college students engage in critical analysis of media information, expressing a sense of disillusionment towards the prevalence of comparisons seen on the internet.

Development and Psychometric Validation of an Information Competency Assessment: The Information Management Brief Scale

<p style="text-align: justify;">Today's college students relate directly to the information through which they learn. They are the ones who detect the information they need, search and evaluate it, and also use it to develop academic projects. Information literacy programs have increased in universities to support the development of these skills to students. The aim of this study was to provide an instrument that allows the measurement of information competency in higher level students and generate evidence of its validity and reliability. The Information Management Brief Inventory (IMBS) was developed, which consisted of 16 Likert type items. IMBS was applied to a sample of 1,937 students from a public university in northern Mexico. For the evaluation of the construct validity and identification of the factor grouping of the items, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was carried out. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to explore the goodness of fit of the model. It was found that the 16 items were grouped into three factors: information management, access to information and information ethics. The psychometric properties of IMBS were adequate.</p>

Learning needs of the 21st century: Using intentional emergence with Generation Z college students.

The student body within a university is a dynamic entity, with each cohort being shaped by current societal events and technological advancements. Thus, higher education institutions and other providers of leadership education and development must consider the nature of today's college students and employees, who are primarily from Generation Z, when engaging in teaching and learning practices. One such pedagogy that aligns with this student cohort is intentional emergence (IE). This article will discuss ideas and considerations for using IE with Generation Z students.

The Goals and Realization of ‘Socio-Horticulture’ as a University Character Education

This study aims to explore the potential of a new university character education model for today's college students who are seeking an immediate transition to an ecological civilization in various aspects of their daily lives. To achieve this, it examines the background, development process, operational methods, and key educational content of the course “SHARE Community Gardening” at E-University, which is based on the concept of “socio-horticulture.” In doing so, it will not only highlight the distinctions between this course and E-University's precursor course, “SHARE Leadership,” but also differentiate it from urban agriculture courses offered at other universities. Furthermore, the study intends to provide a detailed description and analysis of the course development process, including the establishment of farming spaces and facilities, urban agriculture training for instructors, and the identification of learner needs. Additionally, it will describe the assessment methods and operational support system for the course, and introduce a curriculum for “socio-horticulture” education suitable for the four seasons in Korea. Ultimately, this research seeks to evaluate the significance and value of “socio-horticulture” as a component of university character education.

An empirical study on employment behavior of college students in the post-epidemic era based on Herzberg's two -factor theory

The COVID-19 epidemic has had a profound impact on work in all walks of life. Many enterprises and units have changed their employment standards, which has greatly impacted the employment of college graduates. How to find a desirable job in the context of the new coronavirus epidemic is a major problem that college graduates must face. In order for the majority of students to better enter the society, combine the actual needs of college students in the post-epidemic era with the current stage of higher education, and cultivate practical talents that the post-epidemic society really needs, it is particularly important to investigate and study the values of employment of today's college students. Based on Herzberg's two-factor theory, entropy method and principal component analysis method, this paper conducts empirical analysis on the employment values of today's Chinese college students, and concludes that in the post-epidemic era, the emphasis on "health factors" is higher than that on "incentive factors" when choosing jobs.

Prepare to tackle academic misconduct in all its forms

LAS VEGAS — Among today's college students, there's been a shift in perspective about what actually qualifies as cheating, according to Kathy Sulentic, Associate Director of Enforcement with the NCAA.

Prepare to tackle academic misconduct in all its forms

LAS VEGAS — Among today's college students, there's been a shift in perspective about what actually qualifies as cheating, according to Kathy Sulentic, Associate Director of Enforcement with the NCAA.

Research on the influencing factors of college students' online purchasing behavior

As online shopping becomes more and more convenient today, people's online shopping consumption is increasing rapidly. As one of the most dynamic groups, today's college students' online shopping frequency is not high. However, behind the increasing desire for shopping, what reasons stimulate the consumption of college students and whether the consumption of college students is rational enough have aroused people's attention. This paper will discuss the factors that affect college students' shopping behavior and give some opinions.

Prepare to tackle academic misconduct in all its forms

LAS VEGAS — Among today's college students, there's been a shift in perspective about what actually qualifies as cheating, according to Kathy Sulentic, Associate Director of Enforcement with the NCAA.

Multiagent Culture Algorithm-Based Interactive Design of College English Online Teaching Process.

Traditional educational techniques and conceptions no longer match the need of the society for talent training. It is due to the fact that educational reforms are deepening and more open interactive teaching models have begun to be gradually implemented in college English instruction. The method's innovation and reform can not only fully respect the students' dominating position but also entice students to devote themselves to the English classroom with greater zeal which is helpful in allowing for deeper knowledge discovery and thinking. This study has the motive to examine the interactive teaching mode's application tactics in college English classrooms, particularly with the goal of improving the effectiveness of English classroom teaching and promoting the high-quality growth of today's college students. Furthermore, in order to improve the interactivity of online English teaching in colleges and universities, this research proposes an intelligent conversation system based on multiagents to aid in the improvement of online teaching. Finally, using a public discourse corpus dataset for implementation, the proposed model proves to have better performance than existing state of the art approaches.

Research on the Current Situation of Financial Management and Consumption of Shenzhen University Students

With the continuous and rapid development of China's economy, the concept of investment and financial management is gradually being accepted by the public. College students will increasingly become the most extensive and most powerful consumer groups in the future society. To a certain extent, the consumption concept and financial awareness of college students will become the new social mainstream trend, which will affect the development of the future social financial market to a large extent. Through an in-depth investigation on the consumption, expenditure structure, capital source, distribution of surplus use, financial knowledge, and financial products of 2,060 college students in Shenzhen, the results show that today's college students already have certain financial awareness but there are also certain limitations. Factors such as gender, grade, basic financial knowledge, and understanding of financial products have a significant impact on college students' investment, financial management and consumption behavior. Guiding college students to establish correct concepts of investment, financial management and consumption can not only cultivate healthy financial quotient of college students, but also promote the sustainable and healthy development of my country's financial market.

The Integration of Legal Education and Mental Health Education of College Students in the Contemporary Network Environment Facing the Cultivation of Civic Awareness.

Since the world entered the era of network information, the influence of the Internet has been expanding day by day, and today's college students are deeply affected by the network environment, which has also brought unprecedented challenges to the moral education work of colleges and universities. The rule of law education for college students is a key point for the comprehensive implementation of the strategy of governing the country by law. How to enhance the effectiveness and recognition of the rule of law education for college students has become an important task of higher education. Therefore, strengthening the legal education of college students is not only an inevitable choice to fully implement the rule of law but also a realistic requirement to improve the level of higher education and realize the all-round development of college students. College students' mental health education is an important part of the talent training system of colleges and universities, and in-depth exploration of the ideological and political laws of college students' mental health education courses is an inevitable requirement for implementing the fundamental task of Lide Shuren. College students' mental health education courses must be integrated into the ideological and political concepts of the curriculum, reflect the political orientation of ideological and political work, embody the law of educating people with morality as the first, and embody the practical purpose of psychology to pay attention to personality improvement. It is necessary to optimize the content of education and teaching, excavate the elements of ideological politics in the curriculum, enrich the resources of ideological politics in the curriculum, and explore a new way of reforming the ideological and political education curriculum for college students from the aspects of deeply planting family and national feelings, enhancing political identity, strengthening cultural self-confidence, cultivating Chinese temperament, clarifying the meaning of life, strengthening mission responsibility, enhancing civic awareness, and developing law-abiding habits. Strictly regulate the behavior of contemporary college students in the online environment, give full play to the role of legal education, and reduce the incidence of online incidents such as online fraud and cyber violence. This paper puts forward some problems in the current legal education of college students in China and points out the root causes of these problems. Methods for structural reform and advanced cultural construction based on social development are proposed. From a strategic point of view, it is believed that only by managing the reform of legal education and cultivating civic awareness can we completely solve various contradictions and problems among college students in the network environment and pave the way for the development of college students.

The Neoliberalization of Higher Education: Paradoxing Students' Basic Needs at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Millions of college students in the United States lack access to adequate food, housing, and other basic human needs. These insecurities have only been exacerbated in recent decades by the country's neoliberal approach to higher education, with disproportionately negative consequences for historically underserved populations (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, low-income students, and first-generation college students). For each of these reasons, this study explores the organizational paradoxes faced by students attending a public, 4-year Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in southern California. Drawing upon 30 semi-structured interviews with undergraduates who self-identified as historically underserved, our three-stage conceptualization of data analysis revealed three specific paradoxes: (1) provision vs. dependence, (2) sympathy vs. distancing, and (3) bootstrapping vs. unattainability. We conclude with practical and theoretical implications for alleviating the repercussions of neoliberal policies on today's college students.

The American Democracy Project: Equipping Students with the Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences to be Informed and Engaged Citizens

Abstract Preparing college and university students to be informed and engaged citizens is imperative for a healthy democracy. In our current reality of intense political polarization, today's college students are feeling increasingly isolated and disconnected from democratic structures where partisanship impedes their ability to address important societal challenges. In this essay, I introduce the work of the American Democracy Project (ADP)—a network of 297 public colleges and universities serving 2.7 million students—that is committed to equipping students with the ability to understand and employ interdisciplinary perspectives to address society's most pressing problems. In articulating the purposes and outcomes of various ADP projects, partnerships, and initiatives, I show how an association—working both nationally and with their member campuses—can both inspire and equip our students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to build a flourishing democracy.

STUDY OF INSOMNIA SEVERITY INDEX AND NOMOPHOBIA SCORE AMONG MALE AND FEMALE RESPONDEN

Nomophobia is a term that describes a terrible feeling of being without a mobile device, or outside mobile phone communication, in today's world. It's on the rise between today's high school and college students. A number of college students are now using their mobile phones to shower. Sign and symptoms include Irritation, Panic, Nervousness, Anguish, and Inability to regulate or avoid using activities, severe disability, Depression, Anxiety, Social phobia. The treatment consisted of the use of medication, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and the application of evaluation tools.

Research on College Students' Consumption Structure Based on Principal Component Analysis and Questionnaire Survey Information and Computing Science

Based on principal component analysis, this paper collects data from college students through questionnaire survey to study the consumption structure of college students, and gives reasonable suggestions according to the found problems, so as to help college students consume reasonably and establish mainstream consumption values in line with the times. In today's society, college students have become an indispensable part of the consumer. Because most college students do not have independent economic sources, there are many different economic problems in today's college students, and because the consumption structure of different college students is determined by their own characteristics, the problem research is complicated. Therefore, it is appropriate for us to classify complex factors into several principal components through questionnaire survey and principal component analysis. The solution of the model shows that the proportion of enjoyment consumption accounts for a large proportion, and the proportion of various consumption types is quite different, indicating that there are some problems in the consumption concept of college students affected by the environment.

STUDY OF INSOMNIA SEVERITY INDEX AND NOMOPHOBIA SCORE AMONG MALE AND FEMALE RESPONDEN

Nomophobia is a term that describes a terrible feeling of being without a mobile device, or outside mobile phone communication, in today's world. It's on the rise between today's high school and college students. A number of college students are now using their mobile phones to shower. Sign and symptoms include Irritation, Panic, Nervousness, Anguish, and Inability to regulate or avoid using activities, severe disability, Depression, Anxiety, Social phobia. The treatment consisted of the use of medication, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and the application of evaluation tools.

Alcohol Use Among Today's College Students

AbstractThis chapter presents research on student alcohol use for both undergraduate and graduate/professional students.

The American Democracy Project: Equipping Students with the Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences to be Informed and Engaged Citizens

Abstract Preparing college and university students to be informed and engaged citizens is imperative for a healthy democracy. In our current reality of intense political polarization, today's college students are feeling increasingly isolated and disconnected from democratic structures where partisanship impedes their ability to address important societal challenges. In this essay, I introduce the work of the American Democracy Project (ADP)—a network of 297 public colleges and universities serving 2.7 million students—that is committed to equipping students with the ability to understand and employ interdisciplinary perspectives to address society's most pressing problems. In articulating the purposes and outcomes of various ADP projects, partnerships, and initiatives, I show how an association—working both nationally and with their member campuses—can both inspire and equip our students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to build a flourishing democracy.

Group Intervention for Young Adults With Mood and Anxiety Disorders Transitioning to College.

Young adults with chronic mood and anxiety disorders may receive a range of services in pediatric care (eg, psychiatry, therapy) and within the school system (eg, individualized education plans). Such services rely on the involvement of parents or guardians to support youth (eg, attending appointments, administering medications). However, in college, young adults are often on their own and need to assume responsibility for scheduling appointments, obtaining and taking medications, and seeking out additional services (eg, accommodations). Unfortunately, many young adults may not have developed the skills needed to navigate campus and health care systems effectively, which can often lead to dire consequences. Adding to these difficulties are the high rates of depression and suicidal ideation observed in today's college students. Many students need intermediate levels of care to stay in school successfully, although not all have the maturity and skills to navigate health care without a transition plan. To address the needs of young adults transitioning out of pediatric mental health care, we developed a brief group intervention delivered to young adults and their parents during the 6 months before college or transition to living independently in the community. The transition group program structured sessions focused on scaffolding knowledge about one's own skills (and deficits) related to independent living, successful transition to college or community, and ability to independently manage a chronic mental health disorder. All young adults and parents reported that they would recommend or strongly recommend the group to a friend, and the majority found the group to be acceptable with regard to length and frequency. For both young adults and parents, the future outlook also improved from pregroup to postgroup.