"Action Research can empower all administrators in higher education to engage more effectively in resolving challenges in colleges and universities. Scholar-practitioners are particularly well poised to impact three defined areas of practice: college students, faculty, and curriculum, teaching and learning. Through these three areas of foci broad issues within higher education are explored. Action Research is a powerful, localized methodology for impacting difficult and complex issues embedded in organizations. Higher education administrators regularly confront these types of difficult issues and hold the responsibility to solve these problems"--
Introduction; Sara B. Ewell, Joseph McNabb, and Joan Giblin.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter
1. Understanding the Impact of Student Affairs and Student Services
Directors' Leadership Style on the Undergraduate Student Experience: An
Action Research Study; Thomas Tressler-Gelok.
Chapter
2. Investigating the Effects of a Peer Mentorship Program on
Low-Income, First-Generation Students' Access to Financial Resources;
Jennifer Bevins.
Chapter
3. Sustaining Engagement Among Student Organizational Leads; Brandon
Gross.
Chapter
4. Lateral Transfer Students: What Drives their Decision to Leave and
Why Do They Experience Transfer Shock; Christopher Collins.
Chapter
5. The Importance of Connections and Collaborations to Enhance the
Successful Graduate Student Experience; Kathy Dilks.
Chapter
6. Integrating Mental Health Literacy in Student Affairs Master's
Programs; Emily Bauer.
Chapter
7. A Student Centered Approach: Using Systems Theory to Improve
Community Engagement and Belonging; Joseph Castelot.
Chapter
8. Understanding and Responding to Career Counseling Needs of Chinese
International Graduate Students; Lindsey Plewa.
Chapter
9. A Study of Community College Dropouts: Action Research on How a
Peer Mentorship Program Through Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society Can
Improve Students' Performance; Chunfu Jeff Cheng.
Chapter
10. Improving Retention of High-Achieving, Generation Z Students at a
Private, Liberal Arts University; Lars Farabee.
Chapter
11. Seeing the Unseen: An Action Research Study of First-Generation
College Student Persistence at a Mid-Size Private Institution in the
Northeast; Michael A. Urmeneta.
Chapter
12. HERstory: Giving a Voice to the College Experiences of Black
Female Students in the New England Area; Nicole Johnson.
About the Editors.
