Description - Piecing Together the Student Success Puzzle: Research, Propositions, and Recommendations by George D. Kuh
Creating the conditions that foster student success in college has
never been more important. As many as four-fifths of high school
graduates need some form of postsecondary education to be
economically self-sufficient and manage the increasingly complex
social, political, and cultural issues of the 21st century. But
about 40 percent of those who start college fail to earn a degree
within 6 or 8 years, an unacceptably low number.
This report examines the complicated array of social, economic,
cultural and educational factors related to student success in
college, defined as academic achievement, engagement in
educationally purposeful activities, satisfaction, acquisition of
desired knowledge, skills and competencies, persistence, and
attainment of educational objectives.
Although the trajectory for academic success in college is
established long before students matriculate, most institutions can
do more than they are at present to shape how students prepared for
college and they they engage in productive activities after they
arrive.
This is the 5th issue of the 32nd volume of the Jossey-Bass
series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph
is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem,
based on thorough research of pertinent literature and
institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national
survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to
write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each
manuscript before publication.
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