Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure

Name: Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure
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ISBN: 9780787972820

ISBN-10: 0787972827

ISBN-13: 9780787972820

Edition: 2004

Authors: AEHE Staff, John M. Braxton, Amy S. Hirschy, Shederick A. McClendon

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Student departure is a long-standing problem to colleges and universities. Approximately 45 percent of students enrolled in two-year colleges depart during their first year, and approximately one out of four students departs from a four-year college or university. The authors advance a serious revision of Tinto's popular interactionalist theory to account for student departure, and they postulate a theory of student departure in commuter colleges and universities. This volume delves into the literature to describe exemplary campus-based programs designed to reduce student departure. It emphasizes the importance of addressing student departure through a multidisciplinary approach, engaging…

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword


The Ill-Structured Problem of College Student Departure


Overview of the Volume


Intended Audience


Tinto's Interactionalist Theory


Tinto's Interactionalist Theory


An Empirical Assessment of Tinto


Propositions Receiving Strong Support


Explanations for Unanticipated Academic Integration Findings


Tinto's Theory: Revise or Abandon?


Toward a Revision of Tinto's Theory for Residential Colleges and Universities


Influences on Social Integration


Underlying Conceptual Orientation of the Six Influences


Tinto's Theory Revisited in Residential Colleges and Universities


Implications for Racial or Ethnic Minority Students


Student Departure in Commuter Colleges and Universities


Sixteen Propositions: Elements of a Theory of Student Departure in Commuter Institutions


Formulating a Theory of Student Departure in Commuter Colleges and Universities


Exemplary Student Retention Programs


Sources of Retention Programs


Selecting Exemplary Retention Programs


Nine Exemplary Retention Programs


Reducing Institutional Rates of Departure


An Overarching Recommendation


Powerful Institutional Levers of Action


Residential Colleges and Universities


Commuter Colleges and Universities


Reducing the Departure of Racial or Ethnic Minority Students


Conclusions and Recommendations for Scholarship


Conclusions


Recommendations for Further Scholarship


Closing Thoughts


References


Name Index


Subject Index