Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter

Education & Teaching

John H. Schuh

Elizabeth J. Whitt

George D. Kuh

Jillian Kinzie

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

Students' expectations for college form the foundation for the nature of the relationship they have with their college or university. Taking Expectations Seriously: A Guide for Campus Applications is the companion guide to Promoting Reasonable Expectations: Aligning Student and Instiutional Views of the College Experience (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The authors apply the principles discussed in Promoting Reasonable Expectations in four vignettes that illuminate how to reduce discrepancies between what students and institutions want from one another. Academic and student life administrators, faculty members, and others will find the solid research and analyses presented in this guide helpful for improving the quality of undergraduate education by examining students' expectations for college.

Taking Student Expectations Seriously: A Guide for Campus Applications

Thomas, Miller

Dorie Paine

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

Student Success in College, (Includes New Preface and Epilogue): Creating Conditions That Matter

Creating the conditions that foster student success in college has never been more important. As many as four-fifths of high school graduates need some form of postsecondary education to be economically self-sufficient and manage the increasingly complex social, political, and cultural issues of the 21st century. But about 40 percent of those who start college fail to earn a degree within 6 or 8 years, an unacceptably low number. This report examines the complicated array of social, economic, cultural and educational factors related to student success in college, defined as academic achievement, engagement in educationally purposeful activities, satisfaction, acquisition of desired knowledge, skills and competencies, persistence, and attainment of educational objectives. Although the trajectory for academic success in college is established long before students matriculate, most institutions can do more than they are at present to shape how students prepared for college and they they engage in productive activities after they arrive. This is the 5th issue of the 32nd volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

Piecing Together the Student Success Puzzle: Research, Propositions, and Recommendations: Ashe Higher Education Report

Jennifer A. Buckley

Brian K. Bridges

John C. Hayek

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