Minority Student Retention: The Best of the "Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, and Practice"

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-511
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Bettendorf
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
College Student Retention

Reviews: Common Threads of Teenage Grief: A Handbook for Healing, Mourning and Dancing for Schools: A Grief and Recovery Sourcebook for Students, Teachers and Parents, Aiming to Kill, Assisting Bereaved College Students. New Directions for Student Services, Minority Student Retention: The Best of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and PracticeCommon Threads of Teenage Grief: A Handbook for Healing, by KnowTeens Who and TysonJanet N., DallasLake, TX: Helm Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-9631033-6-9, 111 pp., $12.95 (paper)Mourning and Dancing for Schools: A Grief and Recovery Sourcebook for Students, Teachers and Parents, by MillerSally Downham, Ph.D., Deerfield, FL: Health Communications, 2000, ISBN 1-55874-775-3, 137 pp., $10.95 (paper).Aiming to Kill, by BiggarNigel, London: Barton, Longman & Todd, 2004, ISBN 52406-8, 176 pp., £12.95 (paper)Assisting Bereaved College Students. New Directions for Student Services, edited by Servaty-SeibH. L. and TaubD. J., Vol. 121, 2008Spring issue. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 978-04702-95397. (also available online, with information on other titles, www.wiley.com)Minority Student Retention: The Best of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice, edited by SeidmanAlan, Amityville, NY: Baywood, ISBN 978-0-89503-331-4, 312 pp., $49.00 (hardcover)

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Robert G. Stevenson ◽  
Joseph N. Michelotti ◽  
Richard B. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Student Services ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Teachers And Parents

scholarly journals Examining Individualism in College Student Retention Theory and Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terron J. Phillips ◽  
Lisa Lambert Snodgrass, Ph.D.
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
Student Integration ◽  
Collegiate Environment ◽  
Retention Practices ◽  
Retention Theory

College student retention and completion rates correlate with the production of societal benefits such as community engagement, human capital, diverse campus communities, and social mobility. While ideas vary, most contemporary retention practices and strategies rely on foundational studies that focus on individualism, the student-institution relationship, and inhibiting factors to student integration into a collegiate environment. This meta-synthesis examines the individualistic nature of foundational historic and contemporary retention theories and practices as well as recommends a collectivist, culturally-responsive alternative paradigm for retention theory and strategy development moving forward.

Lifestyle and Personality Predictors of College Student Retention

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyndi R. McDaniel ◽  
James H. Thomas ◽  
Diana Harvey ◽  
Yvette Thompson ◽  
Perilou Goddard
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
Personality Predictors

Student Variables that Predict Retention: Recent Research and New Developments

NASPA Journal ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Reason
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Changing Demographics

This article reviews recent research related to the study of college student retention, specifically examining research related to individual student demographic characteristics. The increasing diversity of undergraduate college students requires a new, thorough examination of those student variables previously understood to predict retention. The retention literature focuses on research conducted after 1990 and emphasizes the changing demographics in higher education. Research related to a relatively new variable —the merit-index—also is reviewed, revealing potentially promising, but currently mixed results.

A Multilevel Approach to Assessing the Interaction Effects on College Student Retention

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Bai ◽  
Wei Pan
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
First Year ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
Multilevel Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Year Retention

The present study utilizes a multilevel approach to assess the effects of four different types of intervention on college student retention, focusing on the interaction effects between the student characteristics and the types of intervention. The program effects on a 3-year trend are also explored. The findings of the present study reveal that the social integration programs improved the first-year retention rates for female students, the advising programs and the social integration programs worked better in the first year for students from more selective colleges within the university, and the first-year experience programs had a significant lasting effect across the 3 years on retention for elder students and male students. It is also found that the advising programs were significantly more effective on the first-year retention rates than the general orientation programs. This study provides empirical evidence for researchers and administrators in higher education to improve the effectiveness of intervention programs for students with specific characteristics.

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