2.) Newbold, John
J. "Lifestyle Challenges for Commuter Students." Wiley
Periodicals, Inc. Wiley Online Library, 2015. Web. (chapter of a book-Understanding and Addressing Commuter Student
Needs)
3.) This particular chapter
addresses some lifestyle challenges that commuter students face that resident
students don’t. Newbold’s main argument is that lifestyle differences,
particularly those due to on campus versus off campus living situations, play a
major and negative role in commuter students’ academics. He posits that because
of the heightened level of responsibility that commuter students must attend to
outside of their school work, these students are at a major disadvantage
compared to their peers.
Also in this chapter, Newbold investigates the different
sources and levels of stress that commuter students experience. As commonly
known, stress, when not handled properly, can be very detrimental to one’s
mental state and can have many negative impacts on an individual.
Newbold not only brings his own
ideas into this chapter, but he consults with many previously conducted
research and studies to support his position as well. One such consult was C.A.
Lundberg’s piece The Influence of Time
Limitations, Faculty, and Peer Relationships on Adult Student Learning. Lundberg
addresses different aspects of external demands that commuter students face
that create hindrances such as time limitations for their academic endeavors, restricted
interaction with faculty and peers, and limited social involvement that
traditional residential students may not encounter.
4.) The author of this
chapter/book is John J. Newbold. Although Dr. Newbold is a Managing and
Marketing professor at Sam Houston State University, he utilizes his line of
profession to investigate and study how the managing field correlates to
colleges and their student bodies. For example, one of his other scholarly
works is A Study of Non-Traditional
Students in Terms of their Time Management Behaviors, Stress Factors, and
Coping Strategies. Newbold has been conducting research on commuter student
topics with other scholars for years.
5.) One important phrase
discussed in the chapter is “time management”. This phrase is important because
the author actually uses it to also introduce a counter-argument. Newbold
claims that time management is one of the many difficulties that commuter
students face. However, in the sentence following this claim, he cites a study
by Lundberg that suggests that the very fact that commuter students have to
juggle their academics, commuting, work and other responsibilities is why they
have better time management skills than their residential student peers.
The second important word of
this chapter is “stress”. This is a key topic as it addresses the different
possible reasons why commuter students have more difficulties excelling in
their studies, as believed by the author. In identifying the different origins
of stress, one can use this information to compare it with traditional
residential students and note where the differences in their lifestyle lie.
6.)
“The experience of the more mature commuting students and the many challenges
that they face in their work, social life, family life, and study are
dissimilar to those of the traditional residential notion of university
students upon which higher education principles are usually established” (79).
“Commuter
university students have considerably more role and time strains than
residential college students (Morris, Brooks, & May, 2003). These commuter
students often feel stressed, managing their varied roles and responsibilities
(Curasi & Burkhalter, 2009). The external demands and differing
responsibilities create time limitations residential students may not encounter
(Lundberg, 2003)” (80).
“A
few of the numerous difficulties commuter students face include academic
responsibility, family obligations, work, maintaining personal relationships,
time management, financial obligations, and becoming acclimated to the
university environment (Negga et al., 2007)”(81).
“Commuter
students have described transportation stress related to the high level of
traffic, limited availability of parking, and the amount of time and energy
involved in commuting (Hernandez, 2002). There is also stress associated with
the inconvenience of needing to return to campus for access to library or
computer facilities (Hernandez, 2002)” (81).
“Three
successful coping mechanisms that work within the environment of career, social
life, family life, and study can be identified as sacrifice, support, and
negotiated arrangements (Kember & Leung, 2004). The idea of sacrifice comes
from the concept that “something has to give,” and it is usually associated
with the giving up personal pleasure or the surrender of aspects of one’s
social life (Kember & Leung, 2004)” (82).
“[…]
little time is devoted to actions traditionally associated with developing
support groups. It is the residential students who are more involved with
fraternal and social organizations, dormitories, clubs and teams (Copper &
Robinson, 2000). Commuter students are likely to rely on the same people as
they did prior to beginning their university studies” (82).
7.) This source helped explore my research question because it
introduced a fresh idea that I have yet to come across in my other collected
research: stress. Many of my other sources discuss aspects of the commuter
lifestyle that contribute to their reduced performance in school, however they
did not connect these ideas with stress. Reading this chapter was very
insightful because it offered me another angle that I can incorporate in my
argument. Because this chapter is part of a book that addresses my topic, I
will do further research to consult the rest of the book to gather more
information to strengthen my points. Also, because the author consulted with
many different scholars’ studies, drawing from his research broadens the
collection of sources from which I can gather further information for my paper.
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