Delaware County Community College

"Must Have" Books on Retention

  1. Astin, Alexander. What matters in College: Four Critical Years Revisited
    482 pages
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass; (2001)
  2. Boyer, Ernest. College: The Undergraduate Experience in America.
    328 pages
    Publisher: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1997)
  3. Braxton, John. Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle.
    288 pages
    Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (October 2000)
  4. Braxton, John. Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure: ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report
    (Volume 3) 108 pages
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass (April 2004)
  5. Dickert-Conlin, Stacy. Economic Inequality and Higher Education: Access, Persistence, and Success.
    213 pages
    Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications (June 2007)
  6. Kuh, George, ed. Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter
    370 pages
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass (March 2005)
  7. Pascarella and Terenzini. How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research
    827 pages
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass (February 2005)
  8. Alan Seidman. College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success
    350 pages
    Publisher: Praeger Publishers (May 2005)
  9. Seymour and Hewitt. Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences.
    450 pages
    Publisher: Westview Press; New Ed edition (September 2000)
  10. St. John, Edward, ed. Reframing Persistence Research to Improve Academic Success: New Directions in
    Institutional Research:
    113 pages Publisher: Jossey-Bass (July 2006)
  11. Tinto, Vincent. Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition, Second Edition.
    312 pages
    Publisher:; University of Chicago Press (March 1994)

∗Source: Northeast Association for Institutional Research listserv.