Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Learning from Disciplinary Perspectives on College Student Success—Nicholas A. Bowman 2. Cataloging Institutional Retention Efforts and Their Empirical Grounding—Jenna W. Kramer, Scott K. Rausch, and John M. Braxton 3)Theories, Findings, and Implications from Higher Education Research on Student Success—Nicholas A. Bowman and Jason C. Garvey 4. Public Policy in Higher Education. Agendas, Solutions, and Impacts on Student Success—Nicholas W. Hillman 5. Behavioral Economics of Higher Education. Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Policy and Practice—Lindsay C. Page and Aizat Nurshatayeva 6. Social Psychological Approaches to College Student Success—Heidi Williams and Mary C. Murphey 7. STEM Student Success. Strategic Learning, Mentored Research, and Structural Change—Becky Wai-Ling Packard and Rachel Hirst 8. Inequality in Higher Education. Sociological Understandings of Student Success—Josipa Roksa, Blake R. Silver, and Yapeng Wang 9. Critical and Poststructural Considerations for College Student Success—Jodi L. Linley, Alex C. Lange, and Nicholas R. Stroup 10. An Interdisciplinary Theory of College Student Success—Nicholas A. Bowman, Milad Mohebali, and Lindsay Jarratt 11. Usingthe Interdisciplinary Theory of Student Success. Implications for Policy, Practice, Research, and Assessment—Lindsay Jarratt, Milad Mohebali, and Nicholas A. Bowman
