<p> The purpose of this directed project is to develop nutrition resources aimed at optimizing energy status in male and female elite collegiate endurance runners. Specifically, this project includes personalized meal plans and a post-workout meal suggestion matrix that will be featured within a goal-based smartphone app called &ldquo;Run Fueled.&rdquo; A Formative Evaluation Survey was conducted. An expert panel of three Registered Dietitians completed the survey, and their opinions were determined using a 5-point Likert scale. Overall, the expert panel tended to agree with the specific evaluation items, indicating that the nutrition resources were appropriate and useful for the intended audience. In the future, a research project or qualitative assessment may be conducted on the endurance runners using &ldquo;Run Fueled&rdquo; to determine the effectiveness of the nutrition resources.</p>

<p> While overt and systematic forms of remediation proliferate at community colleges through developmental education courses, remediation also works across the system of U.S. higher education to satisfy divergent goals of universal access and highly guarded academic prestige. Recognizing that remediation often targets students whose &ldquo;at-riskness&rdquo; has been implicitly tied to their racial identities, socioeconomic status, language backgrounds, parental education levels, and/or status as international students, this practitioner research study attempted to better understand how remediation operates within and through a university-based learning center at a highly competitive institution and to enact, with students and colleagues, learning support practices that resist and potentially disrupt institutional legacies and mechanisms of remediation. Through student and practitioner inquiry groups, this study explored alternatives to the individualized and therapeutic instructional model reflected in the spatial organization of the learning center, creating opportunities for participants to collectively construct and articulate their epistemological perspectives, learning goals, cultural and linguistic resources, and complex identities. By framing the learning center and its broader institutional context as activity systems, this study exploited historically accumulating contradictions between these systems in order to trouble and potentially &lsquo;re-mediate&rsquo; both academic support practices and the structures that operate to restrict and define them. Central to this study are questions of how students and practitioners can build upon more expansive notions of knowledge and learning to promote individual growth and constructively disrupt limiting institutional and disciplinary norms.</p>

<p> The purpose of this study was to assess college student perceptions of participating in swimming as a physical activity using the theoretical framework Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991). This quantitative study examined the attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control of college student&rsquo;s intentions to participate in swimming as a physical activity. The sample population was college students enrolled at an Historically Black College and University on the East Coast. The survey was distributed to 248 students enrolled in a general health education course. A total of 220 questionnaires were completed for a response rate of 60%. The sample population was made up of 164 females (75%) and 56 males (25%). To address research question One, the researcher measured the differences between genders&rsquo; intentions to participate in swimming using an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistical test. For research questions Two through Six, a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) statistical test was used to measure differences based on the established survey instrument Physical Activity Questionnaire for Diabetic Patients (PAQ-DP). Statistical significant differences were found amongst genders for perceived behavioral control and intention for measuring differences amongst genders using an alpha level of .05 for all statistical tests. Statistical significance was also found for parent&rsquo;s socioeconomic status for self-identity as well as for affective attitude for geographical location. The research study utilized the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Diabetic Patients (PAQ-DP) which is an established survey instrument created by Zeinab Ghazanfari (2010) as part of a study for assessing diabetic patients&rsquo; perceptions about participating in physical activity. A slight modification to the survey instrument was used by changing physical activity to swimming.</p><p>

<p> The purpose of this project is to create a career planning guidebook for undergraduate hospitality management students. This guidebook will allow students to determine what their interests are in various hospitality careers. Students&rsquo; interests will be determined by performing a self assessment via the web based O*Net Interest Profiler&trade; instrument. The Interest Profiler report will identify students&rsquo; interests based on the six personality types adapted from John Holland&rsquo;s typology of personality types and work environments.</p>

<p> The purpose of this descriptive research was to create awareness and an understanding of how participation in campus recreation contributes to students&rsquo; wellness, and how students can create healthy lifestyles throughout and after their college experience. This study was designed to examine the benefits of participation in campus recreation for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of South Florida. This study investigates the dimensions of wellness in campus recreation and explains how the wellness components of campus recreation have the ability to benefit a student&rsquo;s quality of life during their college years. Both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered and used to help determine the benefits of participating in campus recreation facilities, programs, and services. A random sample of students was chosen to participate in the NASPA Recreation and Wellness Benchmark used to gather data about campus recreation users and their attitudes and opinions on campus recreation at the University of South Florida. A purposeful, convenience sample of students participated in focus groups providing qualitative data. The data showed that students at USF receive benefits from participating in campus recreation; several questions stand out to show students attitudes, opinions, and beliefs about how and why participation in campus recreation is benefiting their wellness and quality of life. This study may leave a footprint for other growing universities in evaluating the importance for students and the benefits of campus recreation departments.</p>