The impact of a living learning community on first-year engineering students |
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| Authors: | Margaret A Flynn Dex Whittinghill |
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| Institution: | 1. Higher Education Administration, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA;2. Department of Mathematics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of an engineering living and learning community (ELC) on first-year engineering students. A control group of non-ELC students was used to compare the experiences of the ELC participants. Analysis of survey data showed that there was significant differences between the ELC students and the non-ELC students in how they responded to questions regarding social support, academic support, connectedness to campus, and satisfaction with the College of Engineering and the institution as a whole. Particularly, there were significant differences between ELC and non-ELC students for questions related to feeling like part of an engineering community, having strong relationships with peers, belonging to a supportive peer network, studying with engineering peers, and spending time with classmates outside of class. |
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| Keywords: | engineering living and learning community first-year students residential programmes |
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