Student: Rebecca Kidder
Graduation date: May 2016
Capstone type: Thesis (honors)
Capstone project:
Knowing Your Place: The Role of Environment in the Transition to College
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Students at Lewis & Clark College were surveyed about their experience transitioning as a new student at the school. Students currently in their first year reported feeling more uncomfortable than returning students remembered feeling. While students indicated that their transitions were most influenced by social, financial, and academic factors, a statistically significant correlation was found among new students between their level of discomfort and the differences in biophysical environment between their home and Portland. Thus, physical environment is an additional factor that seems to influence how some students experience these transitions.