More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student Success
This study examined undergraduate students’ perceptions and definitions of success and implications for higher education. Participants consisted of a diverse group of students from a large urban public university. A team of multidisciplinary researchers conducted a qualitative study adopting a phen...
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2025-01-01
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| author | Anjali Sundararaman Kathy Baek Matthew Gee Audrey Weber Monica A. Corzo Jacob Dinardi Cara J. Connor Kathryn Nesbit Elaine Musselman Linda M. Platas Susanna Jones |
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This study examined undergraduate students’ perceptions and definitions of success and implications for higher education. Participants consisted of a diverse group of students from a large urban public university. A team of multidisciplinary researchers conducted a qualitative study adopting a phenomenological approach. Results show that students believed success to be a personal, expansive, and transformative journey with a focus on the future. Students’ perceptions of success build upon institutionally defined metrics of success, highlighting personal growth, wellbeing, tenacity, the ability to give back to communities, and progress toward career goals. Our research illustrates that students’ views of success are not ubiquitous. In order for student success initiatives to be successful, we recommend that institutions examine student beliefs within their own student populations. This study offers institutions new opportunities to be relevant and responsive to the unique needs of students in their particular student bodies.
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| spelling | doaj-art-a6f68cdbf225488fa4ea3ee210a69dfd2025-01-29T21:54:32ZengFlorida State Open PublishingJournal of Postsecondary Student Success2769-48792769-48872025-01-014210.33009/fsop_jpss134711More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student SuccessAnjali Sundararaman0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8025-1605Kathy Baek1Matthew Gee2Audrey Weber3Monica A. Corzo4Jacob Dinardi5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9912-9864Cara J. Connor6Kathryn Nesbit7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8443-3836Elaine Musselman8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9517-2993Linda M. Platas9https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9253-3880Susanna Jones10San Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State University This study examined undergraduate students’ perceptions and definitions of success and implications for higher education. Participants consisted of a diverse group of students from a large urban public university. A team of multidisciplinary researchers conducted a qualitative study adopting a phenomenological approach. Results show that students believed success to be a personal, expansive, and transformative journey with a focus on the future. Students’ perceptions of success build upon institutionally defined metrics of success, highlighting personal growth, wellbeing, tenacity, the ability to give back to communities, and progress toward career goals. Our research illustrates that students’ views of success are not ubiquitous. In order for student success initiatives to be successful, we recommend that institutions examine student beliefs within their own student populations. This study offers institutions new opportunities to be relevant and responsive to the unique needs of students in their particular student bodies. https://journals.flvc.org/jpss/article/view/134711student successcollegeretentionhigher educationdiversityundergraduate |
| spellingShingle | Anjali Sundararaman Kathy Baek Matthew Gee Audrey Weber Monica A. Corzo Jacob Dinardi Cara J. Connor Kathryn Nesbit Elaine Musselman Linda M. Platas Susanna Jones More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student Success Journal of Postsecondary Student Success student success college retention higher education diversity undergraduate |
| title | More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student Success |
| title_full | More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student Success |
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| title_short | More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student Success |
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| topic | student success college retention higher education diversity undergraduate |
| url | https://journals.flvc.org/jpss/article/view/134711 |
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