Alan Seidman

Crossing the Finish Line

How to Retain and Graduate Your Students

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Implementation of a college student retention formula and success model that will enable students to meet their academic and personal goals in five easy steps.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9781475838916
• ISBN-10: 1475838913
• Artikelnr.: 52425561

Autorenporträt

Alan Seidman is Professor Emeritus at Walden University and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of College Student Retention (www.cscsr.org). He is the founding editor of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, a scholarly, refereed Sage publication.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Seidman says
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why We Should Care About Retention
Chapter 2: The College Mission
Chapter 3: Student Institutional Fit
Chapter 4: Types of Student Departure
Chapter 5: Various Retention Risk Factors
Chapter 6: What Matters in College Student Retention
Chapter 7: What we Know About First Generation College Students
Chapter 8: What we Know About Minority Student Retention
Chapter 9: Other Considerations
Chapter 10: Most Representative Student Enrollment Model: Why It Does Not
Work
Chapter 11: Seidman Student Success Formula/Model and Steps to Success
Chapter 12: Need for Competency Help
Chapter 13: Moving Beyond Assessment & Initial Placement: The Seidman
Student
Chapter 14: Faculty Teaching Practice
Chapter 15: Facilitating Student Social Interaction
Chapter 16: A Word About.
Chapter 17: Other Thoughts
Concluding Remarks
References
Index
About the Author