How College Students Succeed
Making Meaning Across Disciplinary Perspectives
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
Published:23rd Feb '22
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Receiving a college education has perhaps never been more important than it is today. While its personal, societal, and overall economic benefits are well documented, too many college students fail to complete their postsecondary education. As colleges and universities are investing substantial resources into efforts to counter these attrition rates and increase retention, they are mostly unaware of the robust literature on student success that is often bounded in disciplinary silos. The purpose of this book is to bring together in a single volume the extensive knowledge on college student success. It includes seven chapters from authors who each synthesize the literature from their own field of study, or perspective. Each describes the theories, models, and concepts they use; summarizes the key findings from their research; and provides implications for practice, policy, and/or research. The disciplinary chapters offer perspectives from higher education, public policy, behavioral economics, social psychology, STEM, sociology, and critical and post-structural theory.
“Nick Bowman is probably the nation’s leading scholar on student success in college. He has pulled together a talented group of authors to focus on the different dimensions of student success. The result is a work that should be required reading for all faculty and administrators concerned about students and the impact of college.”
Ernest T. Pascarella
Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Student Affairs, University of Iowa
“Essential. Timely. Requisite reading. This interdisciplinary compendium not only provides a theoretical framework to advance our knowledge of college student success, but also serves as an indispensable guide for higher education institutions to anticipate the post-pandemic needs of our students and eliminate the institutional barriers that inhibit their success. How College Students Succeed will help inform practice for years to come.”
Doneka R. Scott
Vice Chancellor and Dean for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, North Carolina State University
“Identifying how to improve college success for students from underserved groups is one of the most important challenges facing higher education leaders, policymakers, and researchers. This volume recognizes how multiple disciplinary perspectives inform understanding of this vexing problem and potential solutions. By bringing together different theories and frameworks, this volume provides new insights into what we know – and what we still need to know – to enable all students to succeed in college.”
Laura W. Perna
GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and Vice Provost for Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9781642671339
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 435g
348 pages