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McLaughlin, Gerald W.; Brozovsky, Paul V.; McLaughlin, Josetta S. – Research in Higher Education, 1998
Proposes a role for institutional research in changing institutional attitudes about priority placed on student retention efforts. Identifies organizational/attitudinal barriers to improving student retention efforts relative to theory on stages of grief (denial, hostility, bargaining, depression, acceptance); outlines tactics for moving the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Change Strategies, College Students, Grief