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Elizabeth Bedoya October 17, 2017 College 201 Profesor Goeller Research Proposal Working title: How Commuting to Campus Increases Social and Academic Disengagement." Topic: The topic of my paper will be how commuting affects a student’s social life, academic success and mental health. Commuting to school has different consequences on students when compared to those living on campus. Most commuter students are less affluent than those who are able to afford living on campus. Which means that most of the time the commuting students will have other responsibilities besides school. Many have a full time or part time jobs, duties and responsibilities at home, and bills to pay including their tuition bill every semester. Therefore, I will demonstrate the pros and cons of commuting while identifying what are the factors that lead students to commute. I want to explore what are the consequences of not being able to live on campus for the four years of college and how th...

(1) Visual (2) Citation Nelson, Danielle, Kaustav Volume Misra, Gail E. Sype, and Wayne Mackie.  Volume 12, Number 1 An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Distance From Campus And GPA Of Commuter Students  (n.d.): n. pag. Web. (3) Summary This journal is based on a research that was conducted at the Saginaw Valley State University. In this research 403 students were studied to find a relationship between the students GPA and the distance that they were commuting from home to their campus. They were trying to find the positive and negative effects between these commuter students. Most of the students were females in this study and they were also interested in those who were commuting and had part time or full time jobs. (4) Authors Danielle Nelson : Attends to the MBA program at Saginaw Valley State University.  Kaustav Misra: An Assistant Professor in Economics at SVSU. Wayne Mackie: A Finance professor in the Accounting/Law/Finance at SVSU. ...

5 scholarly resources 1.  Source: O'Toole, D., Peterson, S. and Wetzel, J.N. 1999. “Factors Affecting Student Retention Probabilities: A Case Study.” Journal of Economics and Finance 23 no. 1: 45-55. 2. Schudde, LT. "The Causal Effect Of Campus Residency On College Student Retention." Review Of Higher Education 34.4 (n.d.): 581-610. Social Sciences Citation Index. Web. 4 Oct. 2016. 3. Source:Tinto, V. 1999. “Taking Student Success Seriously: Rethinking the First Year of College.” NACADA Journal 19 no. 5: 5-9. 4. Armstrong, Elizabeth and Laura Hamilton.  Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2013. Print. 5. Nelson, Danielle, Kaustav Misra, Gail E. Sype, and Wayne Mackie. "An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Distance From Campus And Gpa Of Commuter Students." Journal of International Education Research (JIER) 12.1 (2016): 37. Web.

Visual: citation:   Newbold, Mehta, Forbus “University Commuter Student: Time Management, Stress Factors, and Coping Strategies”. summary: This article is able to give a perspective of the benefits and disadvantages of commuting. The different ways in which people are able to handle stress and use time management. Also, it mentions the type of transport the person has to use when commuting. Some might have to take the bus, the train, and others might have their own car making the commute somewhat easier. Transportation also means money. How much money they will need to pay for transportation or for gas plus insurance if the car is owned. The time that is consumed in traffic, distance, and finding parking. This article overall compares and contrast how life is truly different for those students who live on campus and those who commute. The commuter might have a harder transition and tougher time but many times great skills are learned. On the other hand, the resident st...

 1. Picture of author: 2. Citation: Tinto, V. 1999. “Taking Student Success Seriously: Rethinking the First Year of College.” NACADA Journal 19 no. 5: 5-9. 3. Summary of the reading: Tinto mentions why the classrooms matter for the student education. He mentions that it is very important to support those low income first year students that many time start college with having a part time or full time job. It is that these students realize the obligations between school and their job or personal lives. He mentions the 4 main factors for a effective classrooms which are: expectations, support, assessment and feedback, and lastly involvement . 4. Author: Vincent Tinto ! Syracuse University 5. Key Terms / Concepts: - Expectations: the student's performance depends on the expectations that the faculty and the students have for them. (the students) High expectations usually lead to succes but when there are ow expectations it only encourages failure. - Sup...

3 academic sources  1.  Source: O'Toole, D., Peterson, S. and Wetzel, J.N. 1999. “Factors Affecting Student Retention Probabilities: A Case Study.” Journal of Economics and Finance 23 no. 1: 45-55.      - this first academic source is based about those students who live off campus and at the same time have obligations like a full or part time job. These jobs help the students pay off their tuition bill or to pay for their bills, food, and necessities. This article is helpful because it demonstrates the challenges that those students who are not living on campus have to deal with and how the time that they use to work can affect their academics. 2. Schudde, LT. "The Causal Effect Of Campus Residency On College Student Retention." Review Of Higher Education 34.4 (n.d.): 581-610. Social Sciences Citation Index. Web. 4 Oct. 2016.      - this article mentions the benefits of living on campus and it describes the different resource that...

For my paper, I want to focus on how commuting affects a student’s social life, academically, and mentally. Therefore, I will demonstrate the pros and cons of commuting while identifying what are the factors that lead students to commute. These are some of the sources that I will be using; Source 1 will be based on the student’s economic status and how many times their financial situation will determine whether they will live on campus or commute. -        http://www.acuho-i.org/Portals/0/doc/res/EisenbergResearchNarrative.pdf  Source 2 will mention the challenges that commuter students face during the years. -        http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1875/Commuter-Students.html Source 3 compares and identifies the differences and most importantly the EFFECTS in those students that are commuting and those living on campus. -        https://search.proquest.com/do...