This paper examines the influence of college education on social trust at the individual level. Based on the literature of trust and social trust, we hypothesize that life experience/development since adulthood and perceptions of cultural/social structures are two primary channels in the causal linkage between college education and social trust. In the first part of the empirical study economet...

Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college graduates...

The number of college students who take psychiatric medication has dramatically increased. These students may be at risk for negative mental health outcomes because research shows that mental illness can delay the attainment of developmental milestones critical to adulthood. This article explores college students’ experience with psychiatric medication and how it impacts functioning and stigma....

SOCIAL SCIENCE: Amar, Angela Frederick. “African-American College Women’s Perceptions of Resources and Barriers When Reporting Forced Sex.” The Journal of the National Black Nurses Association 19.2 (2008) 35–41. Through her research, Amar found that “African-American and White women experience violence at equal rates except in the 2024 age range where African-American women experience greater v...

The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which locus of self (institutional versus impulse), measured using the Twenty Statements Test (TST), moderates the relationship between beliefs about alcohol and the college experience (BACE) and alcohol use among college undergraduates. Although the majority of our respondents listed more idiosyncratic personal characteristics and preference...

College students in the United States have studied abroad as part of their educational experience since Indiana University first sponsored its summer educational tours in 1881, according to the chronology of Hoffa (2007). Soon thereafter, many schools established programs abroad and by the third decade of the 20th century, there was some kind of study abroad offering for undergraduates availabl...

I am writing this letter to give feedback of the information visualization website: “Student Debt at Colleges and Universities Across the Nation” whose link is http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/ 2012/05/13/business/student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities.html. Aiming at users from the education community, this visualization effectively conveys the information by various interaction technique...

This paper explores some of the policy tensions inherent in the development of Specialist Schools in England under the New Labour Government, and ways in which research may potentially assist in alleviating those tensions. It outlines the dual agendas currently at play in the Specialist School policy that is central to the government’s moves to transform secondary education and raise standards ...

This study investigated the relationship between an institution’s academic library performance measures and undergraduates’ library use and educational outcomes. The sample consisted of 7,958 undergraduates attending 36 colleges and universities representing four institutional types. Regression analyses determined the relationship between academic library performance measures and library use an...