Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle » (1st Edition)

John M. Braxton is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.

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.

The contributors, including Tinto himself, offer a variety of both theoretical and methodological perspectives to the Student Departure Puzzle.

heoretical Considerations in the Study of Minority Student Retention in Higher Education 000
Laura I. Rendón, Romero E. Jalomo, and Amaury Nora

Investigating the Processes of Persistence Refining Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Generating New Departure Theory 000
Robert M. Johnson, Jr.

Where Is the Student?
Linking Student Behaviors, College Choice,
and College Persistence 000
Francis K. Stage and Don Hossler

A Cultural Perspective on Student Departure 000
George D. Kuh and Patrick G. Love

Power, Identity, and the Dilemma of College Student Departure 000
William G. Tierney

New Institutional Theory and Student Departure 000
Berta Vigil Laden, Jeffrey F. Milem, and Robert L. Crowson

Conclusion Reinvigorating Theory and Research on the Departure Puzzle through Inductive Theory Revision and Other Research Recommendations 000
John M. Braxton

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