Counseling, Higher Education & Special Education Theses and Dissertations
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Item Going for Broke: A Phenomenological Study of How First-Generation Students Make Meaning of College Financial Aid(2021) Hiscock, Joshua Ian; Griffin, Kimberly A.; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The purpose of this study was to add to our understanding of how first-generation students make meaning of financial aid and the process of paying for college. The study sought to understand the emergence of self-authorship and other developmental outcomes that come from this experience. Using a phenomenological research methodology situated within a constructivist epistemological paradigm, this study explored the primary research questions: (1) What does it mean to pay for college as a first-generation student? (a) How do first-generation college students understand the process and decision making before enrolling in college? (b) How does this understanding evolve during their time as an undergraduate? (2) Does understanding of financial aid and the process of paying for college inform first-generation students' development of self-authorship? If so, how?Item The Relationship of Fall 2001 Traumatic Events and the Retention and Involvement of First-Year Students(2005-05-18) Hiscock, Joshua Ian; Komives, Susan R; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis sought to determine the relationship of a series of traumatic events occurring in Fall 2001, specifically the events on September 11th and a local tornado, as measured by the Impact of Events Scale - Revised (Weiss & Marmar, 1997), with the retention and involvement of first-year students from the University of Maryland class entering in Fall 2001 who resided in the Denton residence hall community. This study measured differences in the two key variables - retention and involvement - between the class entering in Fall 2000 as compared to the class entering in Fall 2001. Data for this study was collected from the University's Beginning Student Survey, and from a survey administered to a random sample of students who resided in the Denton community in Fall 2001.