Student Involvement: The William Carey University Family Experience

College is an amazing place where you can go to achieve many different goals. College is a place where one can further their education, meet new people, make long-term relationships with friends, make connections for future jobs, and also have a great time making memories. College is a place where one can become a part of so many different communities or families. Joining fraternities or sororities, playing collegiate or intramural sports, joining a club, getting involved in student government is a great way to get involved. There is so much diversity on a college campus and getting exposed to it is an amazing thing. Studies show that being exposed to diversity or diverse situations can improve critical thinking, enhance your views and knowledge

I have never been able to experience the traditional “college experience” that everyone thinks about when they think of going to a SEC university. One of the biggest perks of being able to take advantage of that is making life-long friends and meeting other students that you are able to study with in order to meet new people and have a great 4 years. While living off campus increasingly hinders this opportunity, organizations such as the National Society of Collegiate Scholars makes this possible for everyone. After joining organizations and attending meetings I have been able to meet people that otherwise I would never have met that have been in my shoes and know by first hand experiences how difficult it will be to juggle a 5 hour chemistry lab along with an 18 hour course load and a part time job.

Student Affairs is appealing to Student Life for assistance because of your already strong relationships and outreach programs with students. While your department has the reputation of directly involving students through your events, our section finds it more difficult to connect with the students in such

College is a great time in a person 's life. This is the time when a kid is growing into who he or she wants to become. College is the time where constraints as a minor are not valid to a student 's life anymore. College gives people the experience of living life for him or herself. A child is turning into a young adult. Students live on campus and get the chance to experience different cultures and customs. Students should not feel unsafe at a place that they have to spend a great amount of time.

I take immense pride in the work of the three organizations in development of students in their individual growth. With various positions at the three centers, my identity as a student leader and a peer educator, gives me more reasons to be proud as these experiences have shaped my values, and my future career aims. In my last year, my hope and my goal has been to transmit these opportunities of finding mentorship, professional growth and personal values to the new students, who visit the W and the UMC. In my first year, I feared that working alongside academic work would be distracting in my future academic goals. However, today I can say without student employment opportunities at the various centers and volunteer programs like Alternative Breaks, I would not be satisfied with only four years that one gets to spend at a large college institution built with inspirations of student

While there are too many distractions on a college campus, it is also what makes it college. Parties, friends,

Living on campus during the four years of my undergraduate work afforded the invaluable chance to become an invaluable member of a diverse community. This was further enhanced by my involvement in numerous clubs and organizations, which served to greatly expand my social network. Taking full advantage of the on campus living experience introduced some pretty amazing friendships.

My student involvement on campus has given me the feeling of being more than just a number at UNCC. The idea of making friends was a big concern for me during my freshman year because of the size of the campus and student body. Fortunately, it was made easier once I stepped out my comfort zone and began to join a few organizations. By networking through organizations, I could find people who I shared similar interest with. I did not have pretend to be someone else, or fabricate stories to make myself sound interesting. By staying true to myself, I met wonderful people that I still talk to today. I even met one of my friends at The Example. Walking around campus is no longer lonesome or frightening because now I recognize people. Going to sports

Attending college at Columbia means engaging in an inclusive community. The university fosters many opportunities for involvement, contribution, and success. It is an Ivy League school in New York City, after all. The best part is that a vibrant and diverse class of students is accepted to grasp these opportunities. This is evident in the school’s numerous cultural organizations and generous financial aid program.

Having the privilege to attend college is a once in a lifetime experience that is granted to few. To be able to experience the academic and intellectual challenges it has to offer is a part of connecting with the real world. Not only does it grant the ability to expand and further a students knowledge in their chosen major, but to also embrace the opportunities and nuance of life that college brings. The benefit of being able to reside on campus builds stronger abilities of being able to step out of the comfort zone. It offers skills on how to communicate and relate with various different people and also be able to improve upon one's interpersonal skills. The requirements that are given amougst freshmens allows us to establish our own form

Rebekah Nathan’s “Community and Diversity” focuses on the changing definition of the word community on college campuses and how that change affects the way students spend their free time and interact with other students. While campus directors set up and promote campus life community with good intentions of providing every student with interesting activities and helping first-time students make the jump from home-life to college-life, big communities usually only take away from the little free time left in the day and make students feel more isolated and alone. The demand on students to participate in every campus activity in order to form a healthy campus life community pushes students further away from organized groups and makes forming

Let us now highlight the way we would put you through the Program. At the outset Sir, I wish to tell you that the aim is to increase your functions in such a way that we can increase your skills not only in the case of your living, but also in the case of your interactions with the society. The aim is to make you totally independent, and

Building and maintaining social connections with others is especially important among college students, as social integration has long been considered a key factor that supports college retention (Bean, 1984; Tinto, 1975). There are a number of psychosocial benefits to being involved in campus clubs and organizations, such as academic autonomy, career planning, and educational involvement (Foubert & Grainger, 2006). There is evidence that engaging in campus group activities increases social integration, at least among fraternities and sororities (Long, 2012). There are many different activities and interests in which campus groups are engaged, spanning from artistic expression (e.g., theater) and sport (e.g., club sports), to academics and social experiences (e.g., fraternities and sororities) (Dugan, 2013). One nationally-representative study on over 47,000 college students found that roughly 80% of college seniors reported having been involved in at least one college campus club or organization at some point (Dugan & Komives, 2007) and another large-scale national survey found about two-thirds of college students to be involved in a campus group (Allan & Madden, 2008).

Alexander Astin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Organizational Change, at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent much of his career trying to understand which variables are most likely to predict student success in Higher Education. Through the course of his research, Astin became convinced that what he called “student involvement” was essential to undergraduate student success. In a now world-leading paper, first published in 1984, Astin defined involvement as “the amount of physical and psychological energy that the student devotes to the academic experience,” and contended that the amount of learning and personal development that students experience in an academic setting is directly connected to the

For most college students, this is the first time they are on their own they get to make their own decisions instead of having to follow what their parents decide. They are starting to really think for themselves and develop their own opinions on important issues in the current world. By going to college they are going to run into people from all walks of life, people that they would have never had to interact with until now. They see other people’s cultures and points of view, challenging what they have known their whole life. This can either cause the student to dig deeper in their way of life trying to cling what they think is normal, or they will start to appreciate and be more open to seeing every angle before making