The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-64218-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1300 g

The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of student success in postsecondary education.

This handbook addresses critical issues in student success, such as student engagement, mental health, and degree completion to provide valuable insights on promoting student success holistically and systematically, for students from different backgrounds or in different institutional contexts. It also offers a robust understanding of how to study and enhance student success by exploring the significance of data, analytics, and various research methods. Using evidence-based insights and practical strategies and offering key concepts, theories, and best practices, this handbook serves as a guide to promoting overall student success and closing success gaps.

With forty chapters authored by leading thinkers in higher education, this handbook is an indispensable resource for postsecondary administrators, faculty, staff, practitioners, graduate students, researchers, and policymakers. It informs and inspires efforts to improve student outcomes and create more supportive environments, so students everywhere can succeed and flourish.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hu, Shouping

O'Shea, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Landscape of Postsecondary Student Success 1. The Evolution of the Student Success Movement 2. College Outcomes and Broader Perspectives on Student Success: Definitions, Frameworks, and Research 3. Understanding Today’s College Students to Accelerate Student Success Section 2: Multiple Dimensions in Student Success 4. The Development of Prosocial, Psychosocial Outcomes in College 5. Fostering Student Critical Thinking in Postsecondary Education: Evidence and Promising Practices 6. Supporting Postsecondary Students’ Career Success 7. Leadership Learning and College Student Leadership Development: Pathways to Student Success in Postsecondary Education 8. Postsecondary Students and Mental Health Section 3: Success for Diverse Student Populations 9. Black Collegians’ Success through Critical Perspective and Black Asset Factors 10. Asian American College Student Engagement: A Reconsideration of Student Success 11. Student Success for Latin* Students 12. Student Success for Indigenous Students 13. Persistence and Retention of Multiracial Students: Unsettling the Monoracial Paradigm of Student Success 14. First-Generation College Students: Who Are They and How Do They Do? 15. Providing Holistic Support to Foster Success of Low-Income Students 16. Increasing Adult Learners’ Success in Two Understudied Contexts: Noncredit Education in Community Colleges and Postsecondary Education in Prisons 17. Transfer Student Success in Postsecondary Education 18. Fostering Success for LGBTQIA+ Students 19. Improving Effectiveness for Changing Demographics of International Students: A (Re)commitment to Inclusion and Success 20. Holistic Development for College Athlete Success 21. Supporting Students with Experience in Foster Care: Invisible No More 22. Perspectives on Graduate Student Success Section 4: Success for Students in Different Contexts 23. The Critical Role of Rural-Located Institutions and Rural-Serving Institutions in Fostering Rural Student Postsecondary Success 24. Community College and Student Success 25. Student Success Strengths and Challenges at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) 26. How For-Profit Colleges and Universities Can Better Support Students: Uncovering the Veil 27. Student Success in Research Universities Section 5: Salient Issues in Student Success 28. Student Engagement and Success in Postsecondary Education 29. Promoting Academic Success by Fostering College Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Skills 30. Digital Teaching and Learning and Student Success 31. Advising the Whole Student: Current Approaches to Integrating Academic, Career, and Personal Support 32. Addressing College Basic Needs Insecurity: The Latest Evidence and Strategies for Success 33. The Role of College Promise Programs in Promoting Postsecondary Student Success Section 6: Critical Considerations in Student Success Research and Practices 34. Organizational and Equity-Focused Theoretical Contributions to Student Success 35. Using Quantitative Research for Student Success: A Primer on Purpose, Process, and the People Behind the Numbers 36. Culturally Responsive Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Student Success Research 37. Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Machine Learning 38. Leveraging Research-Practice Partnerships to Develop a More Robust Evidence Base for Student Success 39. Professional Learning Communities as a Vehicle for Driving Campus-Wide Changes toward At-Promise Student Success 40. Student Success: A Long Overdue Never-Ending Movement

Über Autor(innen)

Shouping Hu is the Louis W. and Elizabeth N. Bender Endowed Professor of Higher Education and the Founding Director of the Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) at Florida State University, USA.

Joe O’Shea is Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Florida State University, USA.