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Faculty Roles in Student Retention

 

Additional Resources

63 Steps Faculty Can Take to Improve Student Retention

Engaging Faculty and Staff: An Imperative for Fostering Retention, Advising, and Smart Borrowing (a report from the Educational Policy Institute)

The Instructor's Role in Retention: Teaching Students to Stay in School (a discussion forum at the website of MERLOT-Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

Please click here to log into Blackboard and access the following articles relevant to how to help students be successful by staying in school: Braxton, J. M., Jones, W. A., Hirschy, A. S., & Hartley, H. V. III (2008). The role of active learning in college student persistence. New Directions for Teaching and Learning (115), 71-83.

Freeman, J. P., Hall, E. E., & Bresciani, M. J. (2007). What leads students to have thoughts, talk to someone about, and take steps to leave their institution? College Student Journal, 41 (4), 755-770.

Campbell, T. A., & Campbell, D. E. (2007). Outcomes of mentoring at-risk college students: Gender and ethnic matching effects. Mentoring & Tutoring, 15 (2), 135-148.

Shelton, E. N. (2003). Faculty support and student retention. Journal of Nursing Education, 42 (2), 68-76.

Coll, K. M., & Steward, R. A. (2008). College student retention: Instrument validation and value for partnering between academic and counseling services. College Student Journal, 42 (1), 41-56.

Schertzer, C. B., & Schertzer, S. M. B. (2004). Student satisfaction and retention: A conceptual model. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 14 (1), 79-91.

References

Engaging Faculty and Staff: An Imperative for Fostering Retention, Advising, and Smart Borrowing. (2008). Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation & Educational Policy Institute. Retrieved August 14, 2009 from www.educationalpolicy.org/pub/pubpdf/EngagingFaculty.pdf

Flegle, L.V., Pavone, T., & Flegle, J. (February 8, 2009). The Instructor's Role in Retention: Teaching Students to Stay in School. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Retrieved from http://voices.merlot.org/forum/topics/the-instructors-role-in.

Lotkowski, V.A., Robbins, S.B., & Noeth, R.J. (2004). The Role of Academic and non-Academic Factors in Improving College Retention. ACT Policy Report. Retrieved from http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/college_retention.pdf.

Project DEEP. National Survey of Student Engagement. Retrieved from http://nsse.iub.edu/institute/?view=deep/index

Promoting Engagement for All Students: The Imperative to Look Within—2008 Results. Retrieved June 18, 2009 from http://nsse.iub.edu/NSSE_2008_Results

Shaffer, Suzanne C. Faculty Roles in Student Retention. Penn State York Instructional Design. Retrieved August 3, 2009 from http://www.personal.psu.edu/scs15/idweb/retention.htm.

SOE Faculty Webpages. Dr. Vincent Tinto. Syracuse University School of Education. Retrieved August 20, 2009 from http://faculty.soe.syr.edu/vtinto/index.php.

The Role of Faculty in Student Retention. Faculty Web Services. Dixie State College of Utah. Retrieved August 14, 2009 from http://new.dixie.edu/reg/faculty/files/faculty-retention-2007.pdf

Tinto, V. (2001, June 19) Taking Student Retention Seriously.
Annual Recruitment and Retention Conference, Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board. Austin, Texas. Retrieved May 11, 2006 from http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/fsd/c2006/docs/takingretentionseriously.pdf

 

Updated: Friday, October 22, 2010

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