The current study prospectively examined the longitudinal relationships between binge drinking behavior and rape experiences among a multisite sample of college women with a history of prior attempted or completed rape (N = 228). Rates of binge drinking among this high-risk sample were high. Prospective analyses indicated that binge drinking significantly increased risk for subsequent rape. Mon...

In his first book and major study of college students, Astin looks at changes in attitudes, beliefs, self-concept, behavior, academic achievement, the career path, and college satisfaction. Questions explored about religion include how religious affiliation changes or is weakened during college, how religious attendance is impacted, what aspects of the college experience contribute to these cha...

With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students’ cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today’s foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities. Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modern language talents. This paper ...

LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE AND LEARNING FROM OTHERS: HOW CONGENITAL AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING SUBSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN YOUNG FIRM INTERNATIONALIZATION JOHAN BRUNEEL, HELENA YLI-RENKO,* and BART CLARYSSE Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, London, U.K. University of Gent, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Gent, Belgium University of Sout...

I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers by estimating production functions using a unique firm-worker matched data set. Productivity of plants in cities that experience large increases in the share of college graduates rises more than the productivity of similar plants in cities that experience small increases in the share of college graduates. These productivity gains are offset by ...

This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 RSA Meeting in Denver, Colorado. John Schulenberg and Jennifer L. Maggs were Organizers. Stephen W. Long was Chair and provided opening remarks. The presentations were: (1) I'm not a drunk, just a college student: Binge drinking during college as a developmental disturbance, by John Schulenberg; (2) Course of alcohol use disorde...

Multi-Institutional Clinical Experience with the daVinci Melanie Seybt, MD1, Ronald B. Kuppersmith, MD2, F. Christopher Holsinger, MD3 , David J. Terris, MD1 1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 2 The Texas Institute for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, College Station, Texas 3Department of Head & Neck Surgery, MD Anderson Cancer Cent...

Research has demonstrated that college students experience stress from sources such as poor self-care habits, educational demands, daily hassles, and perceived control over situations. The present study examined perceived stress, health habits, and daily hassles and uplifts among 135 college freshmen. We hypothesized that students with lower stress levels would be male, would have better self-c...

Though it is frequently assumed that the college experience can influence our life goals, this claim has been relatively understudied. The current study examined the role of goals in college major selection, as well as whether major selection influences later goal change. In addition, we examined whether a person's perceptions of his or her peers' goals influence goal setting. Using a sample of...

OBJECTIVES This study seeks to describe the population of college students with same-sex sexual experience and determine if these students report more substance use than their peers with only opposite-sex experience. METHODS Questionnaires were completed by a national random sample of college students on 119 campuses in 1999. A total of 10,301 sexually active students were categorized as havi...