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- The Effects of a Comprehensive College Transition Program on Psychosocial Factors Associated with Success in CollegeMelguizo, Tatiana; Martorell, Francisco; Swanson, Elise; Chi, W. Edward; Park, Elizabeth; Kezar, Adrianna (Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-11-01)The authors examine the effects of a comprehensive college transition program (CCTP) on four psychosocial outcomes associated with postsecondary success: sense of belonging, mattering, and academic and social self-efficacy. The CCTP operates on three four-year campuses and includes a range of supports, including shared academic courses, peer mentoring, and residential or common community spaces. They leverage the randomization of Angrist et al. (2014), but restrict their comparison to scholarship recipients with and without CCTP exposure. To account for differential attrition from the experimental sample, they rely on a “selection on observables” assumption for their primary analysis. Results suggest that the program significantly and substantially increased students’ sense of belonging and mattering, but had no effect on academic or social self-efficacy.
- The Effects of a Comprehensive College Transition Program on Psychosocial Factors Associated with Success in CollegeMelguizo, Tatiana; Martorell, Francisco; Swanson, Elise; Chi, W. Edward; Park, Elizabeth; Kezar, Adrianna (Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-11-01)In this article, the authors examine the effects of a comprehensive college transition program (CCTP) on four psychosocial outcomes associated with postsecondary success: sense of belonging, mattering, and academic and social self-efficacy. The CCTP operates on three four-year campuses and includes a range of supports, including shared academic courses, peer mentoring, and residential or common community spaces. We leverage the randomization of Angrist et al. (2014), but restrict our comparison to scholarship recipients with and without CCTP exposure. To account for differential attrition from the experimental sample, we rely on a “selection on observables” assumption for our primary analysis. Results suggest that the program significantly and substantially increased students’ sense of belonging and mattering, but had no effect on academic or social self-efficacy.
- Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate (2018)Kezar, Adrianna; Fries-Britt, Sharon; Kurban, Elizabeth; McGuire, Donte; Wheaton, Marissiko M. (American Council on Education, 2019)The University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Missouri System serve as the case site for this report, having experienced a highly visible racial crisis in the 2015–16 academic year. Project co-leads Adrianna Kezar (USC) and Sharon Fries-Britt (University of Maryland) sought three key outcomes from this work: first, to understand what led up to the crisis, second, to understand perceptions of leadership during the crisis in 2015, and third, to understand what it has taken for the University of Missouri to move forward after the crisis. The lessons and insights that they have learned from the initial stages of this case study are the focus of this report.