Catalysts and Constraints to College Student Persistence: Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Braxton
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Student Persistence ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
College Student Persistence

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.

scholarly journals Community college student retention : an examination of student pre-entry attributes, academic experiences, and social experiences and the relationship to first-year persistence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cynthia Adamson
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Community College Student ◽  
First Year ◽  
College Student Retention ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Federal Financial Aid ◽  
High School Gpa ◽  
College Student Persistence

This study investigated the extent that the attributes of incoming students and their subsequent academic and social interactions at an institution are related to community college student retention. Student data from a cohort of first-time students (N = 1089) attending a community college in southwest Missouri was analyzed to examine variables related to fall-to-fall student retention. Predictors of first-year retention included receiving federal Pell grants, high school GPA, receiving a C or higher in college orientation, first semester college GPA, and receiving a C or higher in general psychology, general biology, and U.S. History. The findings highlight the importance of college readiness and value of federal financial aid programs for community college student persistence.

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

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.

Dismantling Invisibility in Multiracial College Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ashley D. Spicer-Runnels
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Academic Integration ◽  
Student Persistence ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Multiracial Students ◽  
College Student Persistence ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Academic Integration

This study was designed to test Tinto's theory of college student integration by measuring the social and academic integration of multiracial students. Policymakers and public interest have increased pressure on higher education institutions to address low degree completion rates among historically underrepresented racial minority students, leading to a targeted shift to assess and address factors that facilitate or hinder minority college student persistence. The participants for the current study consisted of a convenience sample of college students (n=173) classified as seniors at a mid-sized public four-year institution in Texas. The researcher collected pertinent demographic data and used the Institutional Integration Scale-Revised (IIS-R) to measure social and academic integration. The results of the analyses suggested a statistically significant correlation between being multiracial and social integration, but no significant correlation between being multiracial and academic integration.

The Impact of Faculty and Staff on High-Risk College Student Persistence

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. Schreiner ◽  
Patrice Noel ◽  
Edward “Chip” Anderson ◽  
Linda Cantwell
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Student Persistence ◽  
College Student Persistence ◽  
Faculty And Staff ◽  
The Impact
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