Enrollment Management: Perspectives on Student Retention (Part I)

Autor/inn/en	Kalsbeek, David H.; Hossler, Donald
Titel	Enrollment Management: Perspectives on Student Retention (Part I)
Quelle	In: College and University, 85 (2010) 3, S.2-11 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0889
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Graduation Rate; Academic Persistence; Educational Attainment; Enrollment Management; Essays; School Holding Power; Enrollment Trends; Interviews; Opinions; Barriers; Performance Factors; Trend Analysis; Educational Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrmeinung; Leistungsindikator; Trendanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Among the earliest principles and premises of enrollment management as it evolved in concept and practice was that student retention is as critical as new student recruitment in achieving an institution's preferred enrollment profile. Over recent decades, student retention has been one of the most studied aspects of college enrollment dynamics, with abundant articles and journals, studies and dissertations, models and theories, practices and programs, consultancies and conferences all devoted to improving retention and rates of degree completion in American higher education. Despite this, not much has changed in terms of overall rates of college degree completion in America's colleges and universities. If anything, four- and six-year graduation rates have declined in both the public and private four-year sectors. The current level of degree attainment and the wide disparities between groups of students (by socioeconomic profile, by racial/ethnic background, by parental educational attainment) and groups of institutions (by selectivity, by two-year and four-year, by public and private) have now become a prominent focus in president Obama's education agenda. As the next topic in our series of essays in "college & university", we offer our observations and reflections on retention in the form of responses to interview questions. In this first of two essays, we discuss retention in general; in the second essay, we will turn our attention to retention as a function and focus within an enrollment management organization and process and what we know about the effectiveness of current institutional efforts to increase student retention and graduation rates. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10