Alan Seidman

Crossing the Finish Line (eBook, ePUB)

How to Retain and Graduate Your Students

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

College student retention continues to be a vexing issue for colleges and universities. There are some very simple steps that a college or university can take to help students persist until they reach academic and/or personal goal attainment. This book is intended to give the reader the necessary tools, for all types of educational institutions and delivery systems, to implement a retention formula and success model that will actually help students meet their academic and personal goals and thus increase college retention and graduation rates. Regardless of the academic ability, socioeconomic status, gender, first generation, ethnicity of students, the retention formula and model presented will help each and every college type increase student retention and graduation rates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475838923
• Artikelnr.: 53249208

Autorenporträt

Dr. Alan Seidman is the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of College Student Retention (www.cscsr.org) and Professor Emeritus in the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership and founding editor of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice.

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