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Crossing the Finish Line

How to Retain and Graduate Your Students

Alan Seidman

College student retention continues to be a vexing issue for colleges and universities. There are some very simple steps that a college or university can take to help students persist until they reach academic and/or personal goal attainment. This book is intended to give the reader the necessary tools, for all types of educational institutions and delivery systems, to implement a retention formula and success model that will actually help students meet their academic and personal goals and thus increase college retention and graduation rates. Regardless of the academic ability, socioeconomic status, gender, first generation, ethnicity of students, the retention formula and model presented will help each and every college type increase student retention and graduation rates.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 136 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4758-3890-9 • Hardback • July 2018 • $69.00 • (£53.00)
978-1-4758-3891-6 • Paperback • July 2018 • $34.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-4758-3892-3 • eBook • July 2018 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
Subjects: Education / Higher, Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Education / Professional Development, Education / Renewal and Retention
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


Crossing the Finish Line

How to Retain and Graduate Your Students

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • College student retention continues to be a vexing issue for colleges and universities. There are some very simple steps that a college or university can take to help students persist until they reach academic and/or personal goal attainment. This book is intended to give the reader the necessary tools, for all types of educational institutions and delivery systems, to implement a retention formula and success model that will actually help students meet their academic and personal goals and thus increase college retention and graduation rates. Regardless of the academic ability, socioeconomic status, gender, first generation, ethnicity of students, the retention formula and model presented will help each and every college type increase student retention and graduation rates.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 136 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
    978-1-4758-3890-9 • Hardback • July 2018 • $69.00 • (£53.00)
    978-1-4758-3891-6 • Paperback • July 2018 • $34.00 • (£25.00)
    978-1-4758-3892-3 • eBook • July 2018 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
    Subjects: Education / Higher, Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Education / Professional Development, Education / Renewal and Retention
Author
Author
  • 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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • 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
Reviews
Reviews
  • 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


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