Mehrdad Mohammadi is a master student in Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran. Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam is a professor in Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran. Ali Ghodratnama is a Ph.D. student in Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran. Hamid...

There are approximately 20 million students in U.S. colleges and universities. Although this population is characterized as having good health, 600,000 students report some form of disability or some type of medical problem, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, psychiatric disorders, and chronic illnesses, among others. Physicians can enhance youth transiti...

Student cheating has garnered much public attention recently. A perception reflected in media accounts is that acts of academic dishonesty among students in college as well as high school have increased sharply. The cover of the November 22, 1999 issue of U.S. News & World Report, for example, announced that “a new epidemic of fraud is sweeping through our schools” (“Cheating, writing, and arit...

A substantial portion of the college student population experiences affective disorders. This case study presents the conceptualization, course of treatment, and outcomes for a male college student presenting for counseling with depression. A review of Adlerian, cognitive-behavioral, and Gestalt techniques is provided. Counseling | College students | Depression | Case study

The private market of student loans has become an important source of college financing in the U.S. Unlike government student loans, eligibility conditions on student loans from the private market are based on the credit history of the student and the parents, who often serve as cosigners. In addition, interest rates on private loans vary significantly with credit scores (from 7.4 to 15.4 perce...

Students do not enter college tabula rasa. They come with a variety of high school academic experiences, exposure to college information, and family socioeconomic and educational influences, all of which help shape expectations and attitudes of what it is like to be an enrolled college student. Research studies show that high school experiences, engagement, and academic achievement, as well as ...

A conceptual framework for assessing student motivation and self-regulated learning in the college classroom is presented. The framework is based on a self-regulatory (SRL) perspective on student motivation and learning in contrast to a student approaches to learning (SAL) perspective. The differences between SRL and SAL approaches are discussed, as are the implications of the SRL conceptual fr...

1Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, School of Dental College, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Deemed University, Karad, Maharashtra, India, 2Professor & Head, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, School of Dental College, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Deemed University, Karad, Maharashtra, India, 3Reader, Department of Department of Oral P...

1. Post Graduate Student, Department of Pedodontics, Teerthanker Mahaveer Dental College & Research Center, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh 2. Professor, Department of Pedodontics, Teerthanker Mahaveer Dental College & Research Center, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh 3. Senior Lecturer, Department of Pedodontics, Teerthanker Mahaveer Dental College & Research Center, Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh 4. Senior Lecture...

There is a large gap in college enrollment by family income, and there is evidence that this gap is growing. Yet the benefits of a college education, both for the individual and society, are significant. Encouraging college education in general and closing that income gap in enrollment is a long standing policy objective for the United States and Georgia. One policy aimed at closing the income ...