Receiving a college education has perhaps never been more important than it is today. While its personal, societal, and overall economic benefits are well documented, too many college students fail to complete their postsecondary education. As colleges and universities are investing substantial resources into efforts to counter these attrition rates and increase retention, they are mostly unaware of the robust literature on student success that is often bounded in disciplinary silos.
The purpose of this book is to bring together in a single volume the extensive knowledge on college student success. It includes seven chapters from authors who each synthesize the literature from their own field of study, or perspective. Each describes the theories, models, and concepts they use; summarizes the key findings from their research; and provides implications for practice, policy, and/or research.
The disciplinary chapters offer perspectives from higher education, public policy, behavioral economics, social psychology, STEM, sociology, and critical and post-structural theory.
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Nick Bowman is probably the nations leading scholar on student success in college. He has pulled together a talented group of authors to focus on the different dimensions of student success. The result is a work that should be required reading for all faculty and administrators concerned about students and the impact of college.
Ernest T. Pascarella
Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Student Affairs, University of Iowa
Essential. Timely. Requisite reading. This interdisciplinary compendium not only provides a theoretical framework to advance our knowledge of college student success, but also serves as an indispensable guide for higher education institutions to anticipate the post-pandemic needs of our students and eliminate the institutional barriers that inhibit their success. How College Students Succeed will help inform practice for years to come.
Doneka R. Scott
Vice Chancellor and Dean for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, North Carolina State University
Identifying how to improve college success for students from underserved groups is one of the most important challenges facing higher education leaders, policymakers, and researchers. This volume recognizes how multiple disciplinary perspectives inform understanding of this vexing problem and potential solutions. By bringing together different theories and frameworks, this volume provides new insights into what we know and what we still need to know to enable all students to succeed in college.
Laura W. Perna
GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and Vice Provost for Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
1. Learning from Disciplinary Perspectives on College Student
SuccessNicholas A. Bowman
2. Cataloging Institutional Retention Efforts and
Their Empirical GroundingJenna W. Kramer, Scott K. Rausch, and John M.
Braxton 3)Theories, Findings, and Implications from Higher Education Research
on Student SuccessNicholas A. Bowman and Jason C. Garvey
4. Public Policy in
Higher Education. Agendas, Solutions, and Impacts on Student SuccessNicholas
W. Hillman
5. Behavioral Economics of Higher Education. Theory, Evidence,
and Implications for Policy and PracticeLindsay C. Page and Aizat
Nurshatayeva
6. Social Psychological Approaches to College Student
SuccessHeidi Williams and Mary C. Murphey
7. STEM Student Success. Strategic
Learning, Mentored Research, and Structural ChangeBecky Wai-Ling Packard and
Rachel Hirst
8. Inequality in Higher Education. Sociological Understandings
of Student SuccessJosipa Roksa, Blake R. Silver, and Yapeng Wang
9. Critical
and Poststructural Considerations for College Student SuccessJodi L. Linley,
Alex C. Lange, and Nicholas R. Stroup
10. An Interdisciplinary Theory of
College Student SuccessNicholas A. Bowman, Milad Mohebali, and Lindsay
Jarratt
11. Usingthe Interdisciplinary Theory of Student Success.
Implications for Policy, Practice, Research, and AssessmentLindsay Jarratt,
Milad Mohebali, and Nicholas A. Bowman
Nicholas A. Bowman is the Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, senior research fellow in the Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His work uses a social psychological lens to explore key issues in higher education, including student success, equity and diversity, undergraduate admissions, college rankings, and quantitative research methodology. He has written nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles that have appeared in outlets such as Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Sociology of Education, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Science Advances. He is also an author of the third volume of How College Affects Students, which systematically reviewed over 1,800 studies on the short-term and long-term effects of postsecondary education. Dr. Bowmans research has also received popular attention through articles in National Public Radio, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, and other outlets. He has received the Association for the Study of Higher Educations Promising Scholar/Early Career Award and the University of Iowas Scholar of the Year Award.
