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Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle
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Hardcover. More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions in the USA depart at the end of their first year. In this discussion of the "departure puzzle", scholars of the college student experience re-evaluate Vincent Tinto's interactionalist perspective on the issue. Editor(s): Braxton, John M. Series: Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education S. Num Pages: 288 pages, tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 612.
More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year. This phenomenon is known as the ""departure puzzle,"" and for years, the most important body of work on student retention has come from sociologist Vincent Tinto. In Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle, leading scholars of the college student experience - including Tinto himself - reevaluate Tinto's interactionalist perspective, which holds that students unable to connect with either the academic or social subsystems of their institutions are likely to leave. Recent critiques of this ... Read more
More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year. This phenomenon is known as the ""departure puzzle,"" and for years, the most important body of work on student retention has come from sociologist Vincent Tinto. In Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle, leading scholars of the college student experience - including Tinto himself - reevaluate Tinto's interactionalist perspective, which holds that students unable to connect with either the academic or social subsystems of their institutions are likely to leave. Recent critiques of this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Series
Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education S.
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826513083
SKU
V9780826513083
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John M. Braxton is associate professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizations at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College and editor of the series Vanderbilt Issues in Higher Education, in which this volume appears. His many books include Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching.
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