Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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.
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
In this short gem of a book, Alan Seidman presents a practical, comprehensive, and integrated process for successfully addressing student retention at the institutional level. It is highly recommended reading for administrators and policy makers at all institutions concerned with retaining students.
— Ernest Pascarella, professor and Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, University of Iowa
Among all of the topics studied in the field of higher education, retention of students remains one of the most perplexing. Countless numbers of initiatives and special programs including learning communities, boot camps and co-requisite courses have aided some students but failed many. To shorten the path to graduation, colleges offer accelerated learning models and dole out generous dual enrollment credits while four-year graduation rates plummet. Colleges have even gone so far as to literally flip their classrooms and provide blended instruction while doggedly pursuing technology to intervene in solving the retention enigma; yet retention problems linger.
In this unique book Seidman trades research jargon for common sense approaches aimed at practitioners; the people with the ability to affect change. I applaud Seidman’s approach of providing “cases in point” to illustrate the most important aspects of the book. Everything is presented in understandable segments. I proudly support disseminating Seidman’s student success formula and steps to success to promote crossing the finish line.
— Linda Serra Hagedorn, PhD, professor and Associate Dean, College of Human Sciences, Iowa State University