Undergraduates' School Satisfaction: Impact of Academic Experience and School Climate of Diversity

• In Event: 72.065 - Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 72.065-3 - Student Issues in Higher Education: Race and Gender

Abstract

Study mainly aimed at examining how students’ academic experience and perceived school climate of diversity predict their general satisfaction toward their university. Whether those relationships vary across different genders, races/ethnicities and classifications was tested as well. Results found that climate of diversity was the most influential predictor and this prediction pattern was similar across different genders, races/ethnicities and classifications. Course-related and research-related experience were the second and least important predictor respectively. Their prediction powers had distinguished variance across different subgroups.

Authors

• Shuqiong Lin, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Timothy R. Salazar, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Wen Luo, Texas A&M University - College Station