College Student Retention - (The Ace Higher Education) 3rd Edition by Alan Seidman (Paperback)

About the Book

In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, third edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue by examining a number of areas critical to the retention of students, including the history, the theories and concepts, models, and a standardized definition of the term.

Book Synopsis

College student retention continues to be a top priority among colleges, universities, educators, federal and state legislatures, parents and students. While access to higher education is virtually universally available, many students who start in a higher education program do not complete the program or achieve their academic and personal goals. In spite of the programs and services colleges and universities have devoted to this issue, student retention and graduation rates have not improved considerably over time.

College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, Third Edition offers a solution to this vexing problem. It provides background information about college student retention issues and offers the educational community pertinent information to help all types of students succeed. The book lays out the financial implications and trends of retention. Current theories of retention, retention of online students, and retention in community colleges are also thoroughly discussed. Completely new to this edition are chapters that examine retention of minority and international students. Additionally, a formula for student success is provided which if colleges and universities implement student academic and personal goals may be attained.

Review Quotes

Thoughtful attention to detail is Alan Seidman's hallmark. The third edition is a primer for persistence and retention research in higher education for campus administrators in a way that makes the steps involved at once both plausible to carry out and understandable to explain the results to audiences at many levels of sophistication. His goal is to make every student feel mattered and a citizen contributing to modern culture.

About the Author

Alan Seidman is Professor Emeritus at Walden University and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of College Student Retention (www.cscsr.org). He is the founding editor of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, a scholarly, refereed Sage publication.