Modified: 2022-10-21
Covid 19 brought many unwanted changes to students and to student life since March 2020. Many more classes were offered online or hybrid. Face-to-face classes often required less dense seating, physical barriers, and masking. In the face of those changes some higher education venues in Arkansas increased enrollment while others lost students. What are student key concerns in the face of Covid? What are some other effects.
I'll also include results of our 2016 analysis of our honors students bucket lists. Those results say much about our students.
Latest statistics from BCSSE (today!)
Gains and losses of Students Due to Covid in Arkansas 2020
Losses of Students Due to Covid in Arkansas
SAU lost lost 64 first-time, full-time freshmen, for a percent change of -7.69 from its 2019 enrollment of 768
Concerns Caused by Covid
Other Effects Caused by Covid
Recent Arkansas Enrollments (KTBS)
Data 2021 (from BCSSE)
So, talk about your high school experience and your preference for class type.
Again, comment on any of these data.
Honors College Bucket Lists (Kardas, Wingfield, & Morehead, 2016)
Conducted an archival analysis of 1429 student bucket lists collected in Honors Seminar as a class assignment since 2010. Analyzed the differences in male (N = 132) and female (N = 194) students in six post hoc derived categories: Domestic, Thrill Seeking, Career/Achievement, Service, Personal, and Travel. The results for each category were analyzed by the Chi-Square for Goodness of Fit. Surprisingly, except for Thrill Seeking, which showed no statistically significant difference, females exceeded males significantly in all remaining categories. Results provide useful information for honors deans, directors, staff, and faculty.
The Bucket List (2008), two terminal cancer patients, one middle class, the other rich, escape their ward and finally complete their bucket lists.
We had 326 lists with 1429 separate items. We collapsed those into six categories:
Table 1 Totals by Gender
Domestic Thrill Seeking Career/ACH Service Personal Travel
Fem Male Fem Male Fem Male Fem Male Fem Male Fem Male
83 47 78 89 202 114 73 25 207 179 204 128
Thrill Seeking, it intuitively makes sense that males and female honors students would seek to bungee jump or skydive, to swim with sharks, or to climb Mt. Everest.
Career/Achievement was probably the least expected result. Traditional beliefs maintain that men are more career and success oriented than women. Here, perhaps, is the exception to the rule where women who seek honors education run counter to popular stereotypes.
Travel. Again, women desired travel more than men. Popular destinations for both men and women included: Europe, Australia, and the world in general. Women, however, listed travel more than did men.
Service. There, expectedly, women were more likely to list a desire for service. What was troubling was how few men listed that category. Given that service is one of the legs of the honors stool, directors and deans should be cognizant of this result.
We expected females to list Domestic topics more than men and they did. But, both listed topics related to marriage, family, and children nearly equally. However, women listed nearly double the number of topics in this category.
Personal was the most esoteric and showed the widest variety of topics. Females listed items from attending specific cultural or sporting events, through learning to play musical instruments, to meeting famous people. Males listed items such as owning specific vehicles, playing professional sports, and writing books.
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