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The Impact of Social Networking on Online Students
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The Impact of Social Networking on Online
Students
Presenters
Barbara Purvis
Karlene Jaggan
Elizabeth Salazar
Our Social Networking Venues
Online Library
CONL E-News
Student Success Center
Various Clubs
Sorority
Fraternity
National Technical Honor Society
(1st year)
Online Library
Cyber-librarian with scheduled and on-demand office hours
Equipped with news relating to the college, databases such as LIRN, subject guides and tutorials that pertain to students’ career field
Presence on Facebook and Twitter
Live chats
CONL E-NEWSCelebrations
National Poetry Month
National Volunteer Week
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Hispanic Month
Medical Assistant Week
Honor Roll
Contests
Graduation Video
Staff Video
Student Success CenterNew Student Orientation
Program Specific Discussion Boards
Tutoring
Career Advising
Student Lounge
Peer Mentoring
Clubs
Clubs
Book and Movie Club
Keep in Touch ClubBusiness Club
Medical ClubComputer Club
Sorority
Lambda Pi Theta
LPT is Centura College’s first academic online sorority
An organization created to provide friendship and support while promoting unity.
Available to any enrolled female student in good academic standing
Goals are set for the members.
Community service must be performed monthly and the member cannot have any personal gain from it.
Live chats and message board are available.
Lambda Pi ThetaLambda Pi Theta has established 141 official members and 21 pledges and applicants still coming in!!!
GOALS for 2009 to 2014
June 2009 - our goal is to have a business plan established
November 2009 - enough funds for certificates for graduating members
December 2009 - the goal is to have enough funds to offer one $250.00 scholarship for one member.
May 2010 - goal is to have enough funds to gift one member a trip to graduation ceremony
Five Year Goal - To become an official Member of the National Order of Sororities
- from LPT’s website
Lambda Pi Theta Facts:
• Founded in 2008, at Centura College Online, Virginia Beach, Virginia • Open Motto: Sister for a sister, mother for a daughter, always united as one. • Jewel: Pink Diamond • Symbol: Dove• Mascot: Queen • Flower: Lily • Scholarship Information: Memorial of Mrs. Mary Wright scholarship foundation
The purpose of Lambda Pi Theta is to provide women life long opportunities and support for social,
intellectual and spiritual development by bringing women together to influence a positive outlook on our communities and families. By this establishment of a strong sisterhood, it will initiate the creation of
better career opportunities for our sisters and alumni of Centura College.- from LPT’s website
Lambda Pi ThetaOUR MISSION:
"Lambda Pi Theta is an organization created with primary focus on getting our sisters on one accord and encouraging each other to take steps higher up the corporate ladder. We are a mulit-cultural sorority that promotes unity, not only amongst ourselves but within our communities.
Within LPT, we hold chat sessions called Just Us, which gives us a time to exhale where we are able to let out our trials, tribulations and stress that we as women encounter on a daily basis. In Lambda Pi Theta we have daughters that are in need of that mother figure and sisters that are in need of that sister to sister bond."
We also represent and present ourselves as Queens and will not be treated no lower than. We are all about unity amongst everyone there we have created a purpose.
Our sole purpose of our continuing dedication to this process is we have a dream, to become the first online Sorority and to provide support and friendship to our fellow classmates. Online school demands in itself a great sense of independent study, often students feel overwhelmed and often give up on the dream to complete their education. We hope this organization will fulfill the needs for interaction with other classmates and give a great unity to the student body.
- from LPT’s website
Fraternity
Omicron Theta PSIAn organization created to provide friendship and support while promoting unity
Available to any enrolled male student in good academic standing
Started after Sorority-but has not taken off as well as sorority because school population is primarily female
Social Networking Survey
180 respondents (student body of 1200)
63.9% already on a networking site such as Facebook or MySpace
71.11% are interested in social networking sites
87.22% would like to join a social networking site sponsored by Centura College
Students rated the usefulness of a social networking site at 3.65 (5-point scale)
76.11% would like a networking site to be exclusive to Centura students, faculty and alumni
51.11% would like a social networking site that is also available to people outside Centura College
Impact of Social Networking On Students
Increase in GPA
Feeling of community
Camaraderie among students despite demographics
Increased retention
So How Do We Know It Helps?
Student comments
Participation
Survey
Sorority statistics (no other statistics available yet)
Graduates
Pending Grads
Active Students
Probation Students
Sorority
3.363.602.631.44
GPA
College
3.152.932.371.28
GPA
Comparis
on
• Students were originally allowed into the Sorority regardless of academic standing so data is comparable
Academic Standing
Good
Poor
Sorority
41.5%58.5%
College
24.4%75.7%
Drop
Statisti
c
s
• Almost twice as many Sorority drops are academically viable to return to school
• Drop reasons are: financial, personal, or academic
QUESTIONS?