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Editor: Alan Seidman
ISBN: 0-89503-331-3
Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.
Media Type: Hardcover
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Student retention continues to be a vexing problem for all colleges
and universities. In spite of the money spent on creating programs
and services to help retain students until they achieve their
academic and personal goals, and graduate, the figures have not
improved over time. This is particularly true for minority students,
who have a greater attrition rate than majority students.
Demographic information shows that the minority population in the
United States is growing at a faster rate than the majority. It is
imperative that educational institutions find ways to help improve
retention rates for all students but particularly minority students.
Retention rates should not differ appreciably among different
racial/ethnic groups.
The Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory &
Practice is the only scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted
solely to college student retention. It has published many articles
on minority student retention, and this topic continues to garner
much attention. This book is a compilation of the very best of these
articles, selected on the basis of reviews by a cadre of experts in
the education field. The articles discuss African American,
Latino/Latina, Asian and Asian Pacific, Native American, and
biracial students, and institutional commitments to retaining a
diverse student population. For those interested in this vital area,
the collection will teach and inspire them to achieve greater
heights and pay additional attention to retaining minority students
in our colleges and universities.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Four- and two-year college administrators including presidents, vp/deans
of academic, student services and enrollment management,
deans/directors of academic, students, enrollment management and
admissions, vp/deans and directors of first-year student programs
and faculty members. Federal and state government officials as well
as parents of college bound students.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Contributors
African American Students
- Correlates of retention for African-American males in community colleges
- Predicting academic success and retention for African-American Women in
Colleges
- Retaining Black students in engineering: Do minority programs have a
longitudinal impact?
- The
retention of Black male students in Texas public community colleges
- Validating African American students at predominately white institutions
Latino/a
Students
- Leaking
pipeline: Issues impacting Latino/a college students and retention
- Stopping out and persisting: Experiences of Latino undergraduates
Asian and
Asian Pacific Students
- Issues
of college persistence between Asian and Asian Pacific American students
Native
American Students
- The
retention/intervention study of Native American undergraduates at the
University of New Mexico
Biracial
Students
- Identifying interventions to improve the retention of biracial students: A
case study
Institutional
- Institutional commitment to diversity and multiculturalism through
institutional transformation: A case study of Olivet College
- Five
year evaluation of the student diversity program: A retrospective
quasi-experiment
- Fitting
in by race/ethnicity: The social and academic integration of diverse
students at a large predominantly white university
- Sociolingustic challenges to minority collegiate success: Entering the
discourse community of the college
Index
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