Action Research can empower all administrators in higher education to engage more effectively in resolving challenges in colleges and universities. 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. This book explores the power of action research to impact the work of higher education professionals in student affairs.
This book explores how Action Research empowers higher education administrators to resolve complex challenges in colleges and universities. It highlights the methodology's impact on student affairs, emphasizing its effectiveness in addressing difficult organizational issues.
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.
