We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a … study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …

traditional degree program has affected first-year students’ satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused … indicator for students’ personal problems within the academic context. The selection into the type of program is taken into … point to minor differences between the programs. The outcomes are slightly more favorable for students in the new programs …