期刊名称:Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation
印刷版ISSN:1911-9674
出版年度:2013
卷号:25
期号:1
语种:English
出版社:Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation
摘要:Most insightful historical work pinpoints the rise of freshman orientation programs in the mid 1920s as one instance of administrative specialization emerging to fill the advising and socialization void left by faculty taken with academic particularization. Although the press of the historical moment is indeed relevant, institutionalized freshman orientation did not emerge in the historical moment of the 1920s sans progenitor. Rather, specific students sensed the needs of their peers and acted upon their intuition much earlier as a latent orientation function of their manifest religious intent. This research illustrates the lineage of freshman events and college socialization interventions that accumulated over several decades and demonstrates that they were initiated originally by students themselves, specifically through the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Student Associations found across the United States and many parts of Canada.
关键词:Student Orientation;YMCA Student Associations;Colleges and Universities; Student Groups