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Download full textWrenn, Robert L. – 2002
This digest addresses two aspects of managing bereavement on campus: 1) the need for effective counseling practices to help students manage grief, whether due to a death on campus or due to the death of a loved one, and 2) the need for institutional procedures to respond to the death of a campus community member. Administrators and faculty in…
Descriptors: Bereavement, College Environment, Counseling, Counseling Techniques
Kerka, Sandra – 1989
This document reviews research on the factors affecting the retention of adult students, discusses the relevance of some attrition models for adults, and presents strategies for helping adults adapt to the university and for adapting the university to adults. Reviewing factors affecting retention, the digest says that student characteristics,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, College Environment, Higher Education
