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