Christopher Rabeony's College! Topic

Robert M. Gonyea George D. Kuh  Kuh, G. D., Gonyea, R. M. and Palmer, M. 2001. “The Disengaged Commuter Student: Fact or Fiction?” Commuter Perspectives 27 no. 1: 2-5. Kuh, Gonyea, and Palmer have collaborated together to research if commuting students are generally less committed to academic pursuits compared to their counterparts who live on campus. Authors  George D. Kuh, Ph. D is the Founding Director, Senior Scholar, and Co-principal Investigator at the National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment. He has written extensively about student engagement, assessment, institutional improvement, and college and university cultures and consulted with about three hundred fifty colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Robert M. Gonyea, Bob Gonyea is associate director of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, where he coordinates research and reporting for the National Survey of Student Engagement and associated projects. Key Terms Soc

Bibliography 1.  Armstrong, Elizabeth and Laura Hamilton.   Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality . Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2013. Print. 2.     Kuh, G. D., Gonyea, R. M. and Palmer, M. 2001. “The Disengaged Commuter Student: Fact or Fiction?” Commuter Perspectives 27 no. 1: 2-5. 3.  Nelson, Danielle, Kaustav Volume Misra, Gail E. Sype, and Wayne Mackie.  An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Distance From Campus And GPA Of Commuter Students . Web 4.  Newbold, Mehta, Forbus. “Commuter Students: Involvement and Identification with an Institution of Higher Education”. Arden, NC: Academy of Educational Leadership. 2011. Print 5.  Tinto, Vincent. “Taking Student Retention Seriously: Rethinking the First Year of College”. Syracuse University. NACADA Journal, 1999. Print

Christopher Rabeony Professor Goeller Research in the Disciplines: College! October 20, 2017 Research Proposal Working Title: The Academic and Psychological effects of Commuting Students. Topic:             This paper will discuss the effects of commuting has on college students. I will explore how student’s academic progress and psychological states compare to students who live on campus. By researching the trends in students’ GPA as well as their satisfaction with their living conditions in accordance with their college, I can determine the key differences between commuting students and those that dorm. Once my research is completed, I can identify both the benefits and drawbacks of both living conditions and come to a conclusion on which is more beneficial to college students. Research Question:             Does a student’s living situation determine their academic and psychological success in college? Do students who liv

2) Nelson, Danielle, Kaustav Volume Misra, Gail E. Sype, and Wayne Mackie. An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Distance From Campus And GPA Of Commuter Students . Volume 12, Number 1. Web 3) Both Professors and MBA students from Saginaw Valley State University have collaborated together to conduct a study. Their objective is to find the relationship between a student's commuted distance to college from their home and their overall GPA.  4) Authors Danielle Nelson, MBA is an alumna of the MBA program at the Saginaw Valley State University. Kaustav Misra, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor Economics at Saginaw Valley State University. His work has been published in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of International Education Research. Gail E. Sype, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Management and Marketing at Saginaw Valley State University. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books in management. Her research has be

John J. Newbold John J. Newbold, Sanjay S. Mehta, Patricia Forbus. "Commuter Students: Involvement and Identification with Institution of Higher Education."  Academy of Educational Leadership Journal . Pg 141-153 (2011). The reading discusses the conflicts students have with commuting to college. Their academic performances, involvement with their school, and relationships on campus are all affected by their off-campus lifestyle. Part-time work, family, and the stresses of travel are all factors that can affect their academic lives as well. Newbold, Mehta, and Forbus discuss their findings compared to their data on students who reside on campus. The authors for this paper are Dr. John J. Newbold, Sanjay S. Mehta, and Patricia Forbus who are all professors at Sam Houston University in Tennessee. They each are certified marketing professors and have written several papers regarding student struggles in relation to commuting. They together written an article called, Un

1. Holland, Ashley. “How Residency Affects The Grades of Undergraduate Students”. The College at Brockport . May 2014. http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=honors Author Ashely Holland conducts a research using 946 freshman and seniors and compares their ages, transfer status, and residence. Comparing their residence, age, and transfer status Holland researches how on-campus students earned higher grades, than those that commuted. 2. Ohio State University. “Comparing On-Campus, Off-Campus, and Commuter Students”. Center for the Study of Student Life . September 2014. http://cssl.osu.edu/posts/documents/comparing-on-campus-off-campus-and-commuter-students.pdf The Ohio State University conducted research on the number of commuting students, and their involvement in student organizations as well as their reasons as well as their sense of belonging on campus. Since I plan on comparing the psychological affects

Currently I am trying to get a little more specific with my topic. I want to see the academic and social success of students who commuted vs. living on campus once they graduated from school. By doing this I can make my thoughts much more clear. Doing some research has net me a lot of results that relate to the academic success of students who commute vs. dorm. Many web pages, PDF articles, and scholarly books conduct research on this very study. Th Some of these key terms include, integration, time management, and social networking. From what I have read these key terms exist in different realms for those that commute and those that live on campus. The articles all discuss how students who live on-campus have a higher chance for success than students who commute to school. Some resources I found were, "Living on Campus: Does it still Make a Difference?" by Polly A. Graham, Sarah Hurtado, and Robert Gonyea research on first-year students from a University in Indiana. T