How College Students Succeed: Making Meaning Across Disciplinary Perspectives

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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1 Learning from Disciplinary Perspectives on College Student Success 2 Cataloguing Institutional Retention Efforts and Their Empirical Grounding 3 Theories, Findings, and Implications from Higher Education Research on Student Success 4 Public Policy in Higher Education: Agendas, Solutions, and Impacts on Student Success 5 Behavioral Economics of Higher Education: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Policy and Practice 6 Social Psychological Approaches to College Student Success 7 Stem Student Success: Strategic Learning, Mentored Research, and Structural Change 8 Inequality in Higher Education: Sociological Understandings of Student Success 9 Critical and Poststructural Considerations for College Student Success 10 An Interdisciplinary Theory of College Student Success 11 Using the Interdisciplinary Theory of Student Success: Implications for Policy, Practice, Research, and Assessment Editor and Contributor Biographies Index