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Download full textAcevedo, Fernando – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
In the last 40 years in much of the western world dropout rates in higher education have remained almost unchanged. Although student retention seems to be the most studied and discussed aspect, nearly every empirical study on the causes of dropout in higher education and even more the impact of retention actions carried out by universities, in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Foreign Countries
Direct linkGriffin, Alice; Johnson, Kelly V.; Jogan, Kathi – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
This study examined the differences between first-year students who continued to Year 2 and first-year students who did not return to the second year at a mid-size, public, research university in the mid-south. The study utilized the National Survey of Student Engagement to compare the level of student-faculty interaction, experiences with the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Behavior, Student Characteristics, Dropouts
Leveson, Lynne; McNeil, Nicola; Joiner, Therese – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
The role of institutional factors in students' intentions to persist with or withdraw from their studies is well established in the literature. More recently, the influence of factors external to the institution has been highlighted as well. This study investigates the relationship between levels of engagement of first-year students undertaking a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Persistence, Dropouts, Learner Engagement
Liu, Richard – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2010
Since Summerskill's study on college attrition forty years ago, the interest in this topic has never waned. This study was particularly interested in the relationship of race to retention. Various theoretical frames of references have been proposed: Price's organization theory, Durkheim's Suicide, and Marx's Alienation have been used to guide…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Alienation, Predictor Variables
Williford, A. Michael; Wadley, Joni Y. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2008
This study reports how an institutional research office at a large public research university has taken the lead to call attention to retention problems, describe attrition/retention predictors, and influence policy. Building on existing retention theories and previous institutional research studies, the institutional research office began…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Student Attrition, College Freshmen, Research Universities
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2010
The Black College and University Act defined an historically black college and university (HBCU) as one that existed before 1964 with a historic and contemporary mission of educating blacks while being open to all. An HBCU must either have earned accreditation from a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or be making reasonable…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, School Effectiveness, Civil Rights Legislation, Student Development
