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Completing College
Vincent Tinto
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Description for Completing College
Hardback. Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. This work offers administrators a coherent framework with which to develop and implement programs to promote completion. Num Pages: 283 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success. For more than twenty years, Vincent Tinto's path breaking book "Leaving College" has been recognized as the definitive resource on student retention in higher education. Now, with "Completing College", Tinto offers administrators a coherent framework with which to develop and implement programs to promote completion. Deftly ... Read more
Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success. For more than twenty years, Vincent Tinto's path breaking book "Leaving College" has been recognized as the definitive resource on student retention in higher education. Now, with "Completing College", Tinto offers administrators a coherent framework with which to develop and implement programs to promote completion. Deftly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
283
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226804521
SKU
V9780226804521
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About Vincent Tinto
Vincent Tinto is distinguished professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University. He is the author of Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition and coauthor of Where Colleges Are and Who Attends.
Reviews for Completing College
"The best compendium of information on organizational development related to colleges and universities and their students around. It is thoughtful, thorough, and focused on a limited number of areas where a huge number of factors are involved." -John Bean, Indiana University "A valuable, useful guide for institutional dialogue and planning around student retention. Completing College will be welcomed by countless ... Read more