Community Resilience

Sense of belonging and persistence in white and African-American first-year students

Do interventions aimed at increasing students’ sense of belonging work for all students?

In this paper, the authors found that such an intervention increased sense of belonging for white students, but not for African-American students.

However, it did conclude that sense of belonging had direct effects on institutional commitment and indirect effects on intentions to persist and actual persistence behaviour for both white and African-American students.

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