Arguably, student retention has been the primary goal for higher education institutions for
several decades. Certainly, it has been the focus of much research effort among higher …

James Cook University, Townsville, Australia In is now 10 years since the term transition
pedagogy (TP) entered the first year lexicon. Over the course of that decade, enormous …

Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical
transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and …

In this book, the authors bring together in one place essential information about college
students in the US in the 21st century. Synthesizing existing research and theory, they …

Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty
years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not …

Though access to higher education in the United States has increased over the past several
decades, similar increases in college completion have not followed suit. Despite years of …

Current research and practice related to the first year experience (FYE) of commencing
higher education students are still mainly piecemeal rather than institution-wide with …

" The first edition of Researching Higher Education has been a very helpful resource for
those trying to make sense of the field of higher education. Malcolm Tight has accomplished …

Objective: This review is the first large-scale attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of
universal promotion and prevention programs for higher education students on a range of …

Enrollment in STEM majors has improved recently, but there continues to be concern over
students 'retention in those majors, especially women and minority students. The purpose of …