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Crossing the Finish Line
How to Retain and Graduate Your Students
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2018
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.
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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-3890-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-3892-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
114
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Contents No access
Preface: Seidman Says No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One. Why We Should Care about Retention No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two. The College Mission Statement No access Pages 13 - 16
Chapter Three. Student Institutional Fit No access Pages 17 - 20
Chapter Four. Types of Student Departure No access Pages 21 - 26
Chapter Five. Various Retention Risk Factors No access Pages 27 - 30
Chapter Six. What Matters in College Student Retention No access Pages 31 - 36
Chapter Seven. What We Know about First-Generation College Students No access Pages 37 - 40
Chapter Eight. What We Know about Minority Student Retention No access Pages 41 - 44
Chapter Nine. Other Considerations No access Pages 45 - 50
Chapter Ten. Most Representative Student Enrollment Model: Why It Does Not Work No access Pages 51 - 54
Chapter Eleven. Seidman Student Success Formula/Model and Five Steps to Success No access Pages 55 - 68
Chapter Twelve. Need for Skill Development No access Pages 69 - 74
Chapter Thirteen. Moving beyond Assessment and Initial Placement: The Seidman Student Success Model No access Pages 75 - 80
Chapter Fourteen. Faculty Teaching Practice No access Pages 81 - 84
Chapter Fifteen. Facilitating Student Social Interaction No access Pages 85 - 90
Chapter Sixteen. A Word About . . . No access Pages 91 - 102
Chapter Seventeen. Other Thoughts No access Pages 103 - 106
