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Read the latest Campus Activities research in this spring 2025 issue of JCAPS.

In this mixed-methods study, Leda Cempellin led a team from South Dakota State to assess how a campus artist-in-residence program influences student creativity, interdisciplinary thinking, and engagement across arts, STEM, and social science disciplines.

Meghan Grace, Dawn Wiese, & William Foran examine how undergraduate men, particularly in fraternities, understand and engage in peer accountability, revealing greater confidence and participation among fraternity members compared to their unaffiliated peers.

Gyasmine George-Williams led a team from Cal Poly Pomona to explore the impact of the Activism Growth Model (AGM) on student learning and identity development across interdisciplinary courses, highlighting how students apply self-awareness, community connection, and social justice advocacy to their academic and personal lives.

Jean Patterson & Chelsea Redger-Marquardt’s qualitative study uses sensemaking theory to evaluate how students leaders and staff coordinators make meaning of their roles in a Living Learning Community (LLC).

In this portraiture study, John Smith III & Pietro Sasso capture the reflective narratives about the US educational experiences of international alumni and offers insight into how institutions provide student support and services for international students.

Read the latest in Campus Activities research on student engagement, involvement, and development amongst students in residence hall councils, Black men at PWIs, students of color employed on-campus, and Arab American students.

The incoming (Dr. Brittany Devies) and outgoing (Dr. David Rosch) editor in chiefs for JCAPS penned a short editorial about the future of the journal.

Burnett and Taylor explored how 12 graduates of Color developed soft skills working an on-campus position.

In this study by Sounny-Slitine on Arab American college students, participants discussed how they understand their Arab American identity and how they belong at their institution, as well as how engagement in student organizations and other means of student involvement impacted their experience with sense of belonging.