Purpose: To develop a transdisciplinary conceptualization of social belonging that could be
used to guide measurement approaches aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of community …

Sense of belonging in higher education contributes to students' wellbeing and academic
attainment. However, there is ambiguity about the definition and measurement of sense of …

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)—not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and
universities that enroll at least 25% or more Latinx students—are among the fastest-growing …

This book explores how belonging differs based on students' social identities, such as race,
gender, sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus. Belonging—with …

This article reports findings from a constructionist grounded theory study with 51 first-year
college students. We explored student definitions and development of a sense of belonging …

Higher education research suggests that the development of a sense of belonging is key to
academic success and persistence, yet we know little about how first-year students with …

In this book, the authors bring together in one place essential information about college
students in the US in the 21st century. Synthesizing existing research and theory, they …

This study regressed undergraduate grades on background traits, pre-college variables, and
measures of sociocultural capital for nationally representative samples of African American …

Prior research on interacting with diverse peers focuses on pooled samples including all
racial/ethnic groups or specific subpopulations such as women and White men. Research …

This article is an adaptation of the keynote presentation from the NACADA Annual
Conference (Minneapolis, MN, October 9, 2014), that was given by Terrell Strayhorn, a …