Equipped with a health center and other wellness resources on campus. Delighted to have a performing arts center on campus, drawing crowds for Broadway performances, comedians, symphonies, internationally-known speakers, pop and rock concerts and more. Equipped with a recreation center , complete with an indoor track, racquetball and squash courts, four multi-purpose courts and plenty of weights and exercise equipment. Always embracing the family feel across our acre campus.
Comparison of the mean Need for Cognition score for entering freshmen to mean scores found in other samples reveals that Shippensburg students are fairly low in Need for Cognition although their scores may be typical of freshmen at public comprehensive universities. In the cohort of entering freshmen, females scored higher than males in Need for Cognition. Entering freshmen that were higher in Need for Cognition achieved higher GPAs in both the fall and the spring semesters and better grades in World History, a course taken by all freshmen that requires a large amount of reading and extensive writing.
Tolerance of Ambiguity. Intolerance for ambiguity is defined as the tendency to feel threatened or uncomfortable with ambiguity. Individuals who do tolerate ambiguity tend to be flexible, creative, open to new ideas, and able to examine ideas from different perspectives.
Intolerance for ambiguity is associated with authoritarianism and an orientation toward single "right answers. Shippensburg freshmen scored low in Tolerance for Ambiguity although their scores are again equivalent to those found in recent samples of public comprehensive university students.
Consistent with previous research, females also had significantly higher scores on the Tolerance for Ambiguity scale. Entering freshmen that were higher in Tolerance for Ambiguity tended to achieve higher GPAs during their first semester and performed better in General Psychology.
Values are guiding principles in an individual's life that transcend specific situations and determine the selection and evaluation of behaviors and events. The four value domains considered most relevant to the goals of general education were as follows: Universalism: appreciation, understanding, and acceptance of oneself, of others, and of the surrounding world; Benevolence : protection and enhancement of the welfare of others with whom one comes into contact on a day-to-day basis; Self-Direction : independent thought and action; and Achievement : success, achievement, and competence.
Freshmen placed the most importance on Benevolence values, which emphasize concern for the well being of others through true friendship, loyalty, honesty, and helpfulness. In this respect, freshmen are similar to non-student adults in the area. Everyone needs the support of close relationships, and incoming freshmen indicated that this is what they value most.
Freshmen placed much less importance on Universalism, another value domain related to concern for others. With lower Universalism scores, freshmen showed less concern for humanity as a whole and were not especially appreciative of different cultures and viewpoints.
Compared to students at a more selective Ivy League university, Shippensburg students placed an equivalent amount of importance on Benevolence, but they placed much less importance on Universalism.
A close second to Benevolence in importance to freshmen is Hedonism, pleasure and enjoyment of life. A reason for this strong emphasis on Hedonism was probably their young age, but having a good time is also a route to making and cementing relationships with friends. Shippensburg students placed somewhat more emphasis on Hedonism than their counterparts at an Ivy League university. Achievement and Self-Direction were the third and fourth most important values to freshmen.
Although they placed less importance on Self-Direction and slightly less importance on Achievement than did students at an Ivy League university, they placed more importance on values in these two domains than did adults in surrounding communities of southcentral Pennsylvania.
Evidently, many freshmen are ambitious and looking forward to becoming successful. However, the greater importance placed on Benevolence and Hedonism suggests that there may be values conflict i. One of the two least important values to freshmen was Tradition, consisting of respect for and acceptance of traditional religion and culture. Power values were the least important of all to freshmen although they placed more importance on Power than did adults in the regional area. This indicates that social status and control and dominance over others are not major concerns of freshmen, or, at least, other things are much more important to them.
Females placed more emphasis than did males on Benevolence, Universalism, and Self-Direction. Males placed more emphasis than did females on Power values. These gender differences in Benevolence, Universalism and Power values are consistent with other research. As the importance placed by freshmen on Hedonism and Stimulation values increased, their grades tended to decrease. High Hedonism values may partly explain why 19 percent of freshmen in the study were placed on academic probation GPA less than 2.
About Shippensburg University One of the 14 members of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Shippensburg University is a public, coeducational university located in the small town of Shippensburg in southern Pennsylvania. Explore these featured universities. Kyungpook National University Video. Politecnico di Milano Video. Residency degree requirements require that A Students complete at least 30 of their last 60 credits at SU to earn a Shippensburg University degree and B At least half of the required credits in a student's major must be completed at Shippensburg.
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