STUDENT RETENTION AND EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING PERSONAL SUCCESS IN COLLEGE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. Students can be faced with many factors that may deter them from attending class after enrollment. This is a challenge that is faced by all higher education institutions, both traditional and online. Much attention is placed on obtaining new students, however more attention should be placed on retaining them as well. This project will discuss the role that higher education institutions play in retaining students and some of the steps that can be taken in an effort to curtail student attrition.

3. IDEA #1 Does the responsibility of student retention fall into the hands of higher education institutions or the students themselves?

4. IDEA #2 Is there a difference between student retention rates for traditional institutions vs online institutions?

5. IDEA #3 What steps can higher education institutions take towards curtailing student attrition and maintaining the attention of their students?

6. PRELIMINARY RESOURCE LIST

7. • Braxton, J. M., Doyle, W. R., Hartley, H. V., Hirschy, A. S., Jones, W. A., & McLendon, M. K. (2014;2013;). Rethinking college student retention (Firstition.;1; ed.). US: Jossey Bass Ltd.

8. • O'Keeffe, P. (2013). A sense of belonging: Improving student retention. College Student Journal, 47(4), 605

9. • Andrews, J. (2013). What works? student retention and success. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning,14(1), 1-3. doi:10.5456/WPLL.14.S.1

10. •Samuel, K. R., & Scott, J. A. (2014). Promoting hispanic student retention in two texas community colleges.Research in Higher Education Journal, 25, 1.

11. My list of resources will be a combination of ebooks and articles found on APUS library as well as scholarly publications found via the internet. I chose the following resources because they are facts and opinions provided by educational staff members who strongly support my view point on the topic

12. • Sutton, R. (2014) Unlearning the Past: New Foundations for Online Student Retention. Journal of Educators Online, 11(3), 1-30.