Portland student Services, Inc. (PSS), a non-profit student housing corporation, was created under circumstances that were especially arduous. Although thousands of students attending Portland State University in the late 1960s needed housing, state law prohibited the university from providing residential facilities . Many students lived in dilapidated apartment buildings in downtown Portland and faced dislocation from urban renewal programs initiated by the Portland Development Commission. Activists who set out to establish student-run housing also faced hostility from policymakers who resented student-led initiatives in politics and university governance. However, these dedicated student activists aligned with members of the Portland business community and overcame formidable obstacles in establishing permanent student-run housing. In the process, PSS had to contend with difficult political, socio-cultural, and environmental issues. The present study focuses on four major themes: 1) the character of the student housing problem and related legal issues; 2) creation of Portland Student Services; 3) the early operation of PSS; 4) the struggle over construction of off-campus housing.

This thesis is about drinking regime and physical activity of university students in a selected locality. It is divided into two main parts, a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part contains basic concepts associated with lifestyle, offers a broad overview of soft and alcoholic beverages. It defines the life stage that characterizes university students and describes their selected sports activities. The practical part contains the processing and analysis of collected data using a questionnaire survey, interpretation and evaluation of results. For data collection was used research technique of a non-standardized questionnaire in online form. The questionnaire includes both closed questions that offer a specific number of possible answers and open questions that do not provide any prepared answers. The questions relate to external phenomena as well as to internal phenomena (attitudes, feelings, etc.). The collected data are shown in graphs or tables and compared between certain faculties, level of education and on the basis of gender aspects. The aim of the work is to map the observance of the drinking regime, to find out the popularity of individual drinks and their consumption, and to examine physical activity on a sample of university youth or to reveal possible gender...

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[pt] Considerando o fato de que adultos emergentes durante o período universitário se apresentam como grupo especialmente vulnerável a casos de ansiedade, foi conduzido um estudo cujo objetivo era avaliar possíveis associações entre afetos experienciados pelos sujeitos em seu ambiente familiar e sintomatologia ansiosa, tendo como base a fundamentação teórica do Modelo Bioecológico do Desenvolvimento Humano. A partir dessa perspectiva, foram priorizados aspectos afetivos referentes ao microssistema familiar de 240 estudantes universitários entre 18 e 25 anos de idade (MD = 21; AI = 4), sendo 120 provenientes de instituições públicas e 120 oriundos de instituições particulares. Todos os sujeitos foram avaliados através da escala Escala de Emoções Vivenciadas em Ambiente Familiar (BEAF), assim como pela escala Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7). Foram realizadas análises correlacionais e testes entre grupos contrastantes. Os resultados indicam correlações significativas entre a qualidade da afetividade familiar percebida pelos participantes e a incidência dos sintomas de ansiedade. Quanto maior foi a pontuação referente aos afetos negativos percebidos dentro do ambiente familiar, maior o score total de ansiedade relatada pelos sujeitos, configurando uma correlação positiva de magnitude moderada (correlação de Spearman =0,472 (nível 0,01 2 extremidades); correlação de Spearman<0,001). As participantes do sexo feminino relataram maior percepção de afetividade negativa no ambiente familiar, apresentando também mais sintomas de ansiedade. Sujeitos pertencentes a famílias desfavorecidas no aspecto socioeconômico também demonstraram maior percepção de afetos negativos no ambiente familiar. Os achados deste trabalho reafirmam a relação entre afetividade e saúde mental e alertam para a necessidade de um cuidado maior com as relações afetivas familiares. Espera-se que futuramente sejam desenvolvidas políticas de promoção de saúde mental considerando a associação de tais fatores, de modo a visar a prevenção de algumas manifestações sintomáticas nessa população. / [en] Considering the fact that emerging adults during the university period present themselves as a group especially vulnerable to cases of anxiety, a study was conducted with the objective of evaluating possible associations between affections experienced by subjects in their family environment and anxious symptoms, based on the theoretical foundation of the Bioecological Model of Human Development. From this perspective, affective aspects relating to the family microsystem of 240 university students between 18 and 25 years of age (MD = 21; AI = 4) were prioritized, with 120 coming from public institutions and 120 coming from private institutions. All subjects were assessed using the Scale of Emotions Experienced in a Family Environment (BEAF), as well as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7). Correlational analyzes and tests between contrasting groups were performed. The results indicate significant correlations between the quality of family affection perceived by the participants and the incidence of anxiety symptoms. The higher the score regarding negative affects perceived within the family environment, the higher the total anxiety score reported by the subjects, configuring a positive correlation of moderate magnitude (Spearman correlation =0,472 (level 0,01 two ends); Spearman correlation<0,001). Female participants reported a greater perception of negative affectivity in the family environment, also presenting more symptoms of anxiety. Subjects belonging to socioeconomically disadvantaged families also demonstrated a greater perception of negative affects in the family environment. The findings of this work reaffirm the relationship between affectivity and mental health and alert to the need for greater care with family affective relationships. It is expected that mental health promotion policies will be developed in the future considering the association of such factors, in order to prevent some symptomatic manifestations in this population.

Master of Science / This thesis concerns a predominantly white university, Western Carolina University, with historical links to the Cherokee people as well as contemporary links to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. I chose to analyze WCU's student newspaper within a 50-year period before and during the beginning emergence of the American Indian Movement to determine in what ways, if any, do students engage with settler-colonial narratives to selectively remember events and express their student body collective identity. Within the analysis process, I determined the narratives of Ancient Peoples, Exoticism and Romanticism, and Civilized and Uncivilized Peoples most significantly impacted student identity formation. My results demonstrated how students' newspaper articles intertwined campus identity narratives with a perpetuation of settler-colonial beliefs.

Mobile Learning (M-learning) refers to any kind of learning which takes place within and beyond the traditional learning environment via wireless mobile devices. These devices are able to move with the learner to allow learning anytime, anywhere. M-learning is considered as the next step beyond electronic learning (E-learning) and distance learning (D-learning) by using mobile wireless devices with internet connectivity to facilitate formal and informal learning. Over the past decade M-learning has become gradually popular in university settings by providing mobile access to learning resources, collaborative learning and to exchange formative evaluation and feedback between students and instructors. Therefore, M-learning involves learning activities that are not restricted to a specific time or place. Despite the familiarity with M-learning as a new paradigm in modern education, there has been a shortage of research concerning how to deploy this technology in a successful way. The integration of M-learning in a university environment needs to involve some aspects in terms of the readiness of users and institutions, users‟ acceptance and engagement, and the sustainability of the system. There are some initial models that investigate the implementation of M-learning which provide some guidelines that work as starting point for the future of M-learning deployment. However, there is no theoretical model that provides guidelines for staged deployment of M-learning. In addition, there was no clear definition of sustainability factors that will assure continues evaluation and upgrade of M-learning systems after deployment. The aims of this research work are to study students‟ readiness for M-learning, investigate the factors that affect students‟ acceptance and analyse M-learning literature in order to propose and evaluate a model which can be used to foster the sustainable deployment of M-learning within teaching and learning strategies in higher education institutions. The research was conducted in Brunel University, West London. Data were collected from School of Information, Computing and Mathematical Science students using three surveys: the first studied students‟ readiness for M-learning, the second investigated factors that affect students‟ acceptance of M-learning and the last one developed and evaluated a sustainable M-learning deployment model. The outcome of this research lead to a conceptual model that gives a wide overview of all elements that need to be addressed in the M-learning environment and bridges the gap between the pre- and post-implementation phases in order to ensure sustainability. Furthermore, the model provides university educators with a planned approach to incorporate M-learning in higher education curriculums with the aim of improving teaching and learning.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-13T14:10:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DenioDiasArrais.pdf: 1497650 bytes, checksum: cb959a754346de781749413d2af933c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-30 / The relations that involve communication and consumption with culture impact what is currently known by contemporary society. These relations influence people in their way of communicating and consuming. Through this paper we seek to understand the processes of communication and the building of the identity of the young university student, being understood here as an actor for modern consumption. The theoretical basis for this research lies in working out the concepts of communication and consumption, culture and identity. We analyzed the movements of communication and consumption from the use by the young university student of mobile telephony and cell phones. Consumption and citizenship are dealt with using the concepts of Garcia Canclini, who sees consumption as one of the dimensions of the communication process and social belonging. In Featherstone we notice reflections over the culture and consumption in the late modern times, context in which the young people make their presence. In order to write about technology and convergence culture present in practices and ways of communication of the young people, we used the ideas of Jenkins. Hall provides understanding of the building of the identity of the young university student as a complex and cultural process characterized by the ways of using, consuming and communicating, typical of mobile telephony. The adopted methodology for this paper uses, besides the bibliographic research, a quantitative mapping with the goal of obtaining data on the cultural consumption of the young university student. The tools used for this mapping were structured questionnaires, which were run in colleges of the capital and countryside areas of the state of São Paulo. The mapping was useful to obtain elements dealt with in the interviews that were carried out to identify the attribution of meaning given by young people to consumption of cell phones, taking into consideration the theoretical reflections discussed in the bibliographic research. It was possible, then, to identify the presence of cell phones in the common relations of the young people and we have identified the processes of the building of identity. In the general aspect of this paper, we had as a result the fact that the young people have in their cell phones a tool that goes beyond the material and functional usage. The cell phone is a person s telephone. In it we can find parts of the identity of its users in the personalization of content. / As relações que envolvem a comunicação e o consumo com a cultura impactam no que é entendido na atualidade por sociedade contemporânea. Estas relações influenciam os indivíduos em sua maneira de comunicar e consumir. Procuramos com este trabalho entender os processos de comunicação e a formação de identidade do jovem universitário, entendido aqui como ator do consumo moderno. A fundamentação teórica dessa pesquisa reside em trabalhar os conceitos de comunicação e consumo, cultura e identidade. Foram analisados os movimentos da comunicação e do consumo a partir do uso que o jovem universitário faz da telefonia móvel e dos aparelhos celulares. Consumo e cidadania são abordados a partir de Garcia Canclini, que entende o consumo como uma das dimensões do processo comunicacional e de pertencimento social. Em Featherstone verificamos reflexões sobre a cultura e consumo na modernidade tardia, contexto no qual o jovem faz suas mediações. Para falar da tecnologia e da cultura da convergência presente nas práticas e modos de comunicar do jovem, partimos das ideias de Jenkins. Hall colabora para o entendimento da formação da identidade do jovem universitário como processo complexo e cultural caracterizado pelos modos de uso, consumo e comunicação, próprios da telefonia móvel. A metodologia adotada para realização do trabalho contempla, além da pesquisa bibliográfica, um mapeamento quantitativo com o objetivo de levantar dados sobre o consumo cultural do jovem universitário. Os instrumentos utilizados para este mapeamento foram questionários estruturados, aplicados em faculdades da capital e do interior do estado de São Paulo. O mapeamento foi válido para extrair elementos trabalhados nas entrevistas que foram realizadas para a identificação da atribuição de sentido dada pelos jovens ao consumo de celulares, levando em consideração as reflexões teóricas discutidas na pesquisa bibliográfica. Assim foi possível identificar a presença do celular nas relações cotidianas dos jovens e identificamos os processos de formação de identidade. No aspecto geral deste estudo tivemos como resultado que o jovem tem no celular um instrumento que vai alem do uso material e funcional, o celular é o telefone da pessoa, nele estão presentes partes da identidade de seus usuários na personalização de conteúdos.

Os estudos sobre gestão de carreira, quer sejam no âmbito organizacional ou individual, são algo recente na literatura. Atualmente, entende-se que a responsabilidade pela gestão da carreira é das pessoas e que a sua consolidação ocorre ao longo das experiências de vida pessoal e profissional. Com as mudanças originadas pela globalização, novas tecnologias e aumento da competitividade, o contrato psicológico de trabalho migrou de um modelo de emprego vitalício para um modelo de independência e autonomia, onde o indivíduo é responsável pela gestão e desenvolvimento de sua própria carreira. Essas mudanças influenciaram os conceito de carreira e demandaram o desenvolvimento de teorias que considerassem aspectos relacionados à mobilidade, à busca de um sentido para o trabalho e ao sucesso psicológico, tais como a carreira sem fronteiras e a carreira proteana. Considerando a escassez e a necessidade de estudos empíricos no Brasil acerca do tema, o presente trabalho teve como principal objetivo identificar e analisar se a atitude de carreira de universitários tem relação com as novas teorias de carreira. O perfil de carreira agrupa os indivíduos de acordo com a presença de atitudes de carreira proteana, representada pelas dimensões autodirecionamento e orientação pelos valores, e de atitudes de carreira sem fronteiras, representada pelas dimensões mobilidade psicológica e mobilidade física. Esta é uma pesquisa descritiva, com características quantitativa e qualitativa. A coleta de dados foi realizada através da aplicação de um questionário, cujas escalas foram validadas nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil, bem como pela realização de entrevistas. A amostra é não probabilística e intencional e foi formada por 140 estudantes de graduação da Faculdade de Administração, Economia e Contabilidade da USP. A validação da escala de atitude de carreira foi feita a partir da análise da confiabilidade e consistência interna do instrumento de pesquisa, com base no software SPSS - Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Os resultados obtidos através da técnica de análise fatorial foram satisfatórios no que tange à confiabilidade, utilizado o software SPSS. Com base nos dados estatísticos, os escores gerais de carreiras proteana e sem fronteiras apresentaram uma relação positiva, indicando a existência de uma correlação geral entre os dois modelos de carreira para a amostra deste estudo. Os resultados desta pesquisa, no geral, apontam a presença de direcionamento pelos valores, autodirecionamento da carreira, mobilidades física e psicológica, indicando que os respondentes apresentam atitudes de carreiras favoráveis para enfrentar as mudanças exigidas pelo mercado de trabalho. Estas atitudes são mais relevantes para os que fizeram a disciplina Gestão de Carreira, o que também foi confirmado pelas entrevistas. Com isso, conclui-se ser relevante discutir a gestão de carreira no início da carreira profissional desses jovens discentes, que estão entrando no mercado de trabalho. Para esses jovens, essas novas carreiras são uma realidade, ainda que se verifique se tratar de um movimento, não podendo ser ainda considerado como fato para todos os indivíduos pesquisados. Acompanhar a trajetória profissional desses alunos, ampliando a pesquisa com outras variáveis, agregará ao estudo um maior detalhamento sobre as inclinações de carreiras desses indivíduos. Ainda, as discussões deste trabalho, além de contribuírem para as reflexões acerca do assunto gestão de carreira no Brasil, abrem portas para pesquisas com egressos que estejam no mercado de trabalho há mais tempo, ampliando a discussão dos resultados de correlação entre os modelos de carreira proteana e sem fronteiras. / Studies on career management, whether organizational or individual, are something new in literature. Currently, it is understood that the responsibility for the career management is of the person and that its consolidation takes place over the experiences of personal and professional life. With the changes arising from globalization, new technologies and increased competition, the work\'s psychological contract migrated from a lifetime employment model to an independence and autonomy model, where the individual is responsible for the management and development of his own career. These changes influenced the concept of career and demanded the development of theories that consider aspects related to mobility, the search of a meaning to work and psychological success, such as boundaryless career and protean career. Considering the scarcity and the need for empirical studies in Brazil on the subject, this study aimed to identify and analyze if the career atitude of university students is related to the new career theories. The career profile groups the individuals according to the presence of protean career attitudes, represented by self-direction dimensions and values orientation, and attitudes of a boundaryless career, represented by the dimensions of psychological mobility and physical mobility. This is a descriptive research with quantitative and qualitative characteristics. Data collection was performed by applying a questionnaire, whose scales were validated in the United States and Brazil, as well as conducting interviews. The sample is not probabilistic and intentional and was formed by 140 undergraduate students of USP\'s School of Business, Economics and Accounting. The validation of the career attitude scale was made by the analysis of reliability and internal consistency of the survey instrument based on SPSS - Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The results obtained through the factorial analysis technique were satisfactory in terms of reliability, using the SPSS software. Based on statistics, the overall scoresof protean careers and boundaryless career presented a positive relation, indicating the existence of a general correlation between the two career models for this study\'s sample. Theresults of this research, in general, indicate the presence of targeting by values, career selfdirection, physical and psychological mobility, indicating that respondents have career attitudes favorable to face the changes required by the labor market. These attitudes are more relevant to those who made the Career Management discipline, which was also confirmed by interviews. Thereby, it is concluded to be relevant to discuss career management at the beginning of the career of these young students, who are entering the labor market. For these young people, these new careers are a reality, even if it is verified to be a movement, and can not be considered as a fact for all individuals surveyed. Follow the career path of these students, expanding research with other variables, will add to the study greater details on the slopes careers of these individuals. The discussions of this work, besides contributing to the reflections on the career management business in Brazil, opens doors for research with graduates who are in the labor market longer, expanding the discussion of correlation results between protean and boundaryless career models.

This dissertation addresses the university student as a figure of mental health and illness. Drawing on the methods and theories of disability studies, interpretive sociology, critical, feminist and queer theory, as well as hermeneutically oriented phenomenology, my work explores the social production of this student figure or type – variously depicted as ‘ invisible’, ‘maladjusted’, ‘stressed’, ‘difficult’, sensitive’, ‘resilient’, ‘narcissistic’, and extraordinarily ‘ordinary’. This figure is addressed as a means of revealing contradictory understandings of the relationship between success and survival, as this relationship appears in the ordinary daily life of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The social and historical significance of the contemporary University’s Student Life Programs and Services is analyzed with a view to reveal the Western cultural values and practices which organize consciousness of success as a necessary condition of contemporary existence. Special attention is paid to the cultural production of knowledge concerning university student ‘mental life’, the appearance of which is located at the interstices of colonialism, global health policy, institutional ‘best practices’, cultural mores and folkways, and embodied experiences. I dwell with this appearance as an occasion to engage the materiality of Western mythologies of resilience, and with them the meaning of human agency under neoliberal governance. This engagement examines the productive power of the disciplinary and institutionalized ‘language of mental illness’ through a genealogy of the University of Toronto, a textual analyses of the University’s Student Life Programs and Services literature, and a discursive analysis of open-ended interviews with student services representatives which seeks both to understand and transgress conventional interpretations of the structure of Student Life. I demonstrate how University presentations of student bodies, minds and senses perceived to be lacking in ‘ordinary order’, can be reconceived as sites to reflect on the paramount presence of psychiatric knowledge in interpretations and responses to embodied difference within the university setting. Overall, this dissertation seeks to disrupt unexamined relations to the meaning of student types; and in the process, display how normative relations to the student as a figure of mental health and illness needs is currently and historically organized and socially achieved.

This dissertation addresses the university student as a figure of mental health and illness. Drawing on the methods and theories of disability studies, interpretive sociology, critical, feminist and queer theory, as well as hermeneutically oriented phenomenology, my work explores the social production of this student figure or type – variously depicted as ‘ invisible’, ‘maladjusted’, ‘stressed’, ‘difficult’, sensitive’, ‘resilient’, ‘narcissistic’, and extraordinarily ‘ordinary’. This figure is addressed as a means of revealing contradictory understandings of the relationship between success and survival, as this relationship appears in the ordinary daily life of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The social and historical significance of the contemporary University’s Student Life Programs and Services is analyzed with a view to reveal the Western cultural values and practices which organize consciousness of success as a necessary condition of contemporary existence. Special attention is paid to the cultural production of knowledge concerning university student ‘mental life’, the appearance of which is located at the interstices of colonialism, global health policy, institutional ‘best practices’, cultural mores and folkways, and embodied experiences. I dwell with this appearance as an occasion to engage the materiality of Western mythologies of resilience, and with them the meaning of human agency under neoliberal governance. This engagement examines the productive power of the disciplinary and institutionalized ‘language of mental illness’ through a genealogy of the University of Toronto, a textual analyses of the University’s Student Life Programs and Services literature, and a discursive analysis of open-ended interviews with student services representatives which seeks both to understand and transgress conventional interpretations of the structure of Student Life. I demonstrate how University presentations of student bodies, minds and senses perceived to be lacking in ‘ordinary order’, can be reconceived as sites to reflect on the paramount presence of psychiatric knowledge in interpretations and responses to embodied difference within the university setting. Overall, this dissertation seeks to disrupt unexamined relations to the meaning of student types; and in the process, display how normative relations to the student as a figure of mental health and illness needs is currently and historically organized and socially achieved.