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Direct linkGrawe, Nathan D. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Demographic changes promise to reshape the market for higher education in the next 15 years. Colleges are already grappling with the consequences of declining family size due to low birth rates brought on by the Great Recession, as well as the continuing shift toward minority student populations. Each institution faces a distinct market context…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Demography, Curriculum Development, Program Design
Campbell, Rebecca; Blankenship, Benjamin B. – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Colleges and universities have a commitment to improve the student experience, increase persistence, and provide paths to degree completion. Course redesign, focused on student success, is a promising strategy for realizing that commitment. This article examines some of the particulars when course redesign is explicitly linked to student success.…
Descriptors: Courses, Higher Education, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
Glazer, Hilda R.; Murphy, John A. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2015
The first-year experience for students enrolled in an online degree program, particularly the orientation and the first course experience, is critical to success and completion. The experience of one online university in improving persistence through enhancing orientation and the first academic course is presented. Factors impacting persistence…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Persistence, College Students, Distance Education
DiBartolo, Patricia Marten; Gregg-Jolly, Leslie; Gross, Deborah; Manduca, Cathryn A.; Iverson, Ellen; Cooke, David B., III; Davis, Gregory K.; Davidson, Cameron; Hertz, Paul E.; Hibbard, Lisa; Ireland, Shubha K.; Mader, Catherine; Pai, Aditi; Raps, Shirley; Siwicki, Kathleen; Swartz, Jim E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Best-practices pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) aims for inclusive excellence that fosters student persistence. This paper describes principles of inclusivity across 11 primarily undergraduate institutions designated as Capstone Awardees in Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) 2012 competition. The Capstones…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Medical Education, Best Practices, Educational Practices
Holloway, Elizabeth L.; Alexandre, Laurien – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
This chapter explores relational boundary crossing in doctoral education as a way to improve student learning and faculty satisfaction. A brief introduction sets the stage by articulating a recognized set of challenges for student learning in the current context of U.S. doctoral education. The chapter then introduces elements of an innovative…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedBackhus, DeWayne – NACADA Journal, 1989
Implementation of a centralized student advising service implemented at Emporia State University that provides intrusive advising appears to have improved student persistence by 8 percent, suggesting that the strategy might be useful in other institutions. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Centralization, Higher Education
Boyd, Diana – Campus Activities Programming, 1992
Research suggests that addition or expansion of a comprehensive student activities program at community colleges can lower the high student attrition rate and the cost of constant recruitment. Although increased emphasis on comprehensive extracurricular activities can be expensive in personnel and other resources, it may be a worthwhile…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Extracurricular Activities
