Rethinking College Student Retention

摘要: Preface ix Acknowledgments xv About the Authors xvii 1. Introduction: Rethinking College Student Retention 1 Part I Recommendations for Policy and Practice 9 2. State Success 11 3. Institutional 35 II Theoretical Research Context 69 4. Explaining Persistence 71 5. The Revision of Tinto s Theory Residential Colleges Universities 83 6. A in Commuter 109 7. Design Studies 133 III Key Factors 161 8. 163 9. 183 10. Conclusions a Call Further 205 Appendix A: Tables 223 B: Technical Statistical Procedures 243 C: Multivariate Analyses Results 253 References 265 Index 285