Cultural Adjustment Challenges Among First-Year Students in Universities

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of the cultural adjustment challenges among first-year students in university. The chapter focuses on the types of cultural adjustments, the stages of cultural adjustments, and the challenges the first-year students experience as they adapt to the new cultural set up in the universities. The purpose of this chapter will be to find the cultural adjustment challenges faced by first-years in the university. In this chapter, document analysis was adopted as the research methodology. The findings of this study had implications to the university management and counseling departments at higher educations. The study recommends that university management should develop appropriate policies to make the learning institutions' environments more conducive for students to adjust effectively in terms of culture. In addition, the author recommends that counseling staff at universities should help the first-year students adapt socially and culturally as they join the universities through peer mentoring.