Special Topics in CSA: College Students in the U.S.

15:245:641:01

Wednesdays 9:00-11:40am   GSE 347

Dr. Ifenyinwa Onyenekwu, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

This course examines foundational and new theories about college students in the United States with a focus on contemporary and anticipated student demographic and enrollment trends; campus culture, student life, and college outcomes. The course explores the diversity of students in higher education, the influence of institutional types, college student culture, the influence of socioeconomic differences on college enrollment and institutional policies and practices that enhance student learning, retention, and graduation.  As such, it includes opportunities for self-reflection and connects to GSE’s mission by developing students, self-awareness and cultural awareness.

* This course is open to all graduate students.

* For CSA students, this course will satisfy 3 elective credits out of the required 6 needed under the "Special Topics in CSA" requirement.

Please welcome a new faculty member to the CSA family - Dr. Ife Onyenekwu.  She earned her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and her areas of study include the P-20 educational pipeline, diverse populations of Black students in higher education, and globalization of higher education.