Current Initiatives and Research
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Department of Counseling and Personnel Services (EDCP)
Ho Lam Yiu, EDCP
Teacher Ratings of Student Behaviors and the Student-Teacher Relationship: A Focus on Asian American Students
Despite being rated as on-task and engaged in the classroom, teachers did not perceive as close a relationship with Asian American students as with Caucasian students. Teachers' ratings of Asian American students as academically oriented may overshadow the issue of a lack of quality relationships between Asian American students and their teachers, a factor known to correlate with positive schooling experiences.
Angelo Gomez, EDCP
Peer mentoring among Latina/o students in higher education: A philosophical investigation on the intersectional of lived experiences and social identities, and how a counselor makes sense of this experience.
This is a philosophical study based on the hermeneutic phenomenological approach developed Heidegger and Gadamer, and critical theory as articulated by Freire from the perspective of the recipient of the mentoring efforts views, better known as mentees or protégés. This study attempts to interpret the meaning making process of peer mentoring among Latina/o students in a public research intensive university, where social identities such as race, gender, ethnicity and others seem to intersect, converge, and transform the nature of the mentoring experience leading to the creation a lived peer mentoring experience that is multi-layered and shifting or a non-traditional mentoring experience.
Meredith Smith, EDCP
Peer Mentoring and Leadership: Differences in Leadership Self-Efficacy Among Students of Differing Peer Mentoring Relationships, Genders, and Academic Class Levels
Past researchers have noted that peer mentoring is most likely the most prevalent type of mentoring on college campus and yet little is known about outcomes for students who serve as peer mentors (Kram & Isabella, 1985). This ex post facto study of the 2006 MSL data will examine the potential relationship between serving as a peer mentor and leadership self-efficacy.
S. Mei-Yen Hui, EDCP
“Haikus in the Subway”: Understanding Student Perceived Outcomes and Meaning Making of an Alternative Spring Break Experience
Alternative Spring Breaks (ASB), service-learning immersion trips during university breaks, are a growing form of co-curricular service-learning used to meet civic engagement outcomes in higher education. This paper reports findings from a constructivist case study, which investigated undergraduate college students’ experiences on an ASB trip.
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