Rural Students Falling Behind

Access to leading universities more difficult than ever for students from rural areas As a sophomore majoring in English at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Tsinghua University, Zhao Jun has learned the true meaning of "spiritual solitude" over the past year.

Prevention and Intervention Measures for Abnormal Psychology of Rural College Students: A Case Study of Northwest A&F University

Due to the negative influence of family's cultural and education level,economic development,and rural traditional culture,rural college students have such abnormal psychology as inferiority complex in learning and job selection,high psychological pressure,sensitive interpersonal relationship,high emotion fluctuation,confusion in love and sex,and high unknown risks. Therefore,through strengthening the effectiveness of abnormal psychological prevention and intervention,it is expected to prevent rural college students from becoming psychological weak.

Solutions to Rural College Students' Psychological Plight in Career Choice Based on Social Learning Theory:A Case Study of Northwest A&F University

The rural college students are facing psychological plight in their career choice.The social learning theory can use the triadic theory of learning to set reasonable career choice goals,the observational learning theory can be employed to establish a correct outlook on career choice,and the self-efficacy theory can be adopted to make up for the deficiencies in career choice.

School Boarding and Students'Prosocial Behaviors:Evidence from Rural China

This study investigated the efects of boarding at school on students'prosocial behaviors in rural China using data from the National Children's Study of China.The instrumental variable(IV)approach was used to control for potential endogeneity,and the IVs were the proportion of boarding students in higher grades and the school area per student.The ordinary least squares and IV estimates showed that boarding students exhibited more prosocial behaviors,including compliance with rules,positive traits,and altruistic attitudes.These results were robust.Heterogeneity analyses suggested that students from low-income families,children who were not"left behind,"high-grade students,and female students were more likely to benefit from boarding.We found that these effects were primarily due to boarding students developing stronger feelings of trust and support from their peers and teachers and participating in more school-organized events and team activities.

Fairness in Admission:Voices from Rural Chinese Female Students in Selective Universities in Chinese Mainland

As the Chinese mainland has transitioned from elite to mass higher education,the race to attend university has escalated to become a race to attend selective universities.This study focuses on rural female university students and explores how they make sense of their higher education admission experiences.We rationalize that the inquiry into fairness is crystallized through examining rural female students’voices,which remain largely marginalized from the literature.Drawing from in-depth interviews with 22 rural female undergraduates from five selective universities in northern China,we focus on their perspectives towards three key issues in higher education admission:entrance exams,region-based quotas that put them at distinct disadvantages,and new reform initiatives.

A Rural Woman Supports Five College Students

SEEING off her youngest daughter, Zhang Xiling, in her fifties and tired, leaned against a low, old and dilapidated house made of mud. The little hill village looked very quiet at dusk; the hilly road in the evening glow zigzaged further away. This common rural woman stared at the hilly road where she watched her dreams go as all her children went away one by one. In 1978, Nie Wenhai, her oldest son, was admitted to Harbin Col-

Rural Women Get Help from Women Students

SINCE more and more rural women have become involved in commercial production, they have become more and more eager to learn about scientific technology. The Women’s Federation of Beijing had long been looking for a direct and effective way to help them. Luo Xiaolu, vicedirector of the Federation, found in her investigation of the present conditions of intellectual women in Beijing that women students were also eager to get in touch with society. Then she had an idea that women students in universities and colleges should go to the countryside. Thus, an activity developed called "women college students and rural women, hand in hand."