Overview
- Examines case studies of student retention and success in higher education
- Analyses the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on student retention and success
- Engages leading scholars from various countries
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This book draws together international research to assess the quality of successful efforts to retain students. The editors and contributors unite diverse global research from countries who have led student retention and success projects at national, institutional, faculty or program level with positive outcomes. The book is underpinned by the philosophy that a more diverse student population requires higher education institutions to fundamentally change, in order to facilitate the success of all students. All of humanity, its economies and societies, are being pummelled by waves of pandemic-induced crises in tandem with globalisation and demographic shifts. Ultimately, this book acts as a clarion to higher education institutions to better support and retain their students, in order to create a more stable learning environment.
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“Going to university changes your life for the better, but dropping out worsens your future prospects more considerably than if you had never been at all. So, we have a moral and social responsibility to help all students to thrive. This strongly values and research-led book shows us why and how we can do this. It is essential reading for that reason.” –Helen E. Higson, Provost and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Aston University, UK
“Exploring student success and retention through a cross-section of conceptualisations, definitions, models, approaches, institutions and countries, this book offers a deep and wide range of ideas for consideration. Through the lenses of data, evidence, scholarship, research and reflexivity, the reader is challenged to examine their own and broader assumptions about the complex and challenging areas of University student retention and success”.
–Marcia Devlin, Former Senior Vice-Presidentand Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor, Victoria University, Australia
“Drawing on research evidence and practical examples from Australia, South Africa, Europe and the US this book offers a valuable evidence-led and highly reflexive account of student success and student retention. The book is rooted in the firm belief that institutional change is the key to improving student success, and it provides research informed practical guidance about how to achieve this. The authors encourage us to think deeply and carefully about what we mean by the term student success. This is essential reading for higher education leaders, policy makers, teaching staff, and researchers, as we work together to develop and implement approaches that support student diversity and success”.
–Susan Orr, Pro Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching, York St John University, UKEditors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mahsood Shah is Professor and Dean of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. In this role, he provides overall leadership and management of the campus.
Sally Kift is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and elected President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows. From 2012 to 2017, she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University, Australia.
Liz Thomas is Professor of higher education at Edge Hill University, UK and has more than twenty years’ experience undertaking and managing research about widening participation, student engagement, belonging, retention and success, and institutional approaches to improving the student experience and outcomes.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Student Retention and Success in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Institutional Change for the 21st Century
Editors: Mahsood Shah, Sally Kift, Liz Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80045-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80044-4Published: 16 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80047-5Published: 17 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80045-1Published: 15 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 351
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Psychology, Pedagogic Psychology