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Student Retention in Higher Education

2017
As education systems place increasing emphasis on accountability, it is timely to assess the factors that contribute to student retention in higher education. This chapter examines how Irish HEIs compare in their student retention patterns and if this changes when compared on a like-for-like basis, taking account of student characteristics such as ...
Selina McCoy, Delma Byrne
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Student Retention in Higher Education: Why Students Choose to Remain at University

Journal of College Student Retention, 2021
This research captured the voices of 578 current university students investigating whether they have considered leaving university without completing their studies, what caused them to consider leaving their studies, and explored the reasons that led ...
J. Nieuwoudt, M. Pedler
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Student Retention, U.S.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, 2020
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Towards a structural inequality framework for student retention and success

Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
University campuses are increasingly diverse, reflecting substantial growth in student enrolments, but this has not translated to equitable outcomes for all students.
Ryan S. Naylor, N. Mifsud
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Student Retention: Fostering Peer Relationships Through a Brief Experimental Intervention

Journal of College Student Retention, 2020
Social integration (i.e., feeling a sense of belonging, involvement, support, or connectedness) is an important factor in university student retention, especially among students of color from underrepresented groups.
D. Rasco, Shelby L. Day, Kenneth Denton
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Impact of Community Experiences on Student Retention Perceptions and Satisfaction in Higher Education

Journal of College Student Retention, 2020
Understanding student experiences and the ability to predict satisfaction and retention continues to be an important topic in higher education. Among the many variables that have predictive capacity, recent research shows that a sense of belonging may be
Neil M. Boyd, Xiaoyan Liu, Kevork Horissian   +2 more
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Critical Imperatives for Studying Queer and Trans Undergraduate Student Retention

, 2020
The dearth of retention scholarship that centers (or includes) queer and trans (QT) students has resulted in inadequately capturing the nuanced dimensions of student retention.
J. Garvey
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Student Retention

Journal of Social Work Education, 1992
Recruitment of minority students into schools of social work means little if students are unable to complete their studies. Retention of social work students has rarely been studied at the undergraduate or graduate levels, or as it pertains to minorities. This article reports on a study of 352 social work students, predominantly minority, admitted to a
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Retention of engineering students

2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2017
Retention of engineering students is an international concern. Most countries report a shortage of engineers. By increasing the number of retained engineering students it is potentially possible to increase the number of engineering graduates. The purpose of this article is to identify and analyse what retention research has been done in the past to ...
H. Steenkamp, A. L. Nel, J. Carroll
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Queering College Student Retention

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
Retention literature and concepts warrant examination through the lens of queer theory, a poststructural body of thought about sexuality and gender, to understand their implications for queer students. Five themes found in the retention literature are addressed from a queer perspective: framing retention as an economic and labor problem; campus ...
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