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The First Generation Student Experienceby Jeff Davis
Stylus Publishing 2010; US$ 23.99Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institutions overall retention and graduation rates. This book provides administrators with a plan of action to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures. First-person narratives by first-generation students help the reader get to grips with the variety of ethnic and economic categories to which they belong. The book concludes by defining 14 key issues that institutions need to address, and offers a course of action for addressing them. more...
Leaving Earlyby Mantz Yorke
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 64.95Present the findings of new research into the problem of students dropping-out from their courses, and provides information that will help institutions understand and address the problem. more...
Truancy and Schoolsby Ken Reid
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 57.95Professor Reid focuses on the social, psychological and educational causes of truancy. He examines recent research and gives many examples of good practice while also detailing the latest solutions for tackling this problem. more...
Tackling Truancy in Schoolsby Ken Reid
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 124.95Tackling Truancy in Schools is an up-to-date comprehensive text on the subject of truancy. It synthesises and brings together in a practical way recent knowledge and ideas on truants and truancy. more...
Matrona Doctaby Emily Hemelrijk
Routledge 2004; US$ 39.95Presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman History, from the second century BC to AD 235. Also examines the role of women as patronesses of literature, learning and writing. more...
Women's advancement in Universities, Volume 28, Issue 6by Liz Doherty; Simonetta Manfredi
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00The articles for this e-book were all selected from papers presented at the Fourth European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education (HE) which was held in Oxford in the summer of 2005. The conference was aimed at academics and practitioners who share an interest in understanding the processes that disadvantage women in universities, and in evaluating measures intended to promote gender equality. The papers which have been selected here address issues concerned with women?s career advancement in universities. Some explore formal mechanisms for progression, and how women fare in advancement processes, providing detailed analyses of academic selection processes as well as issues around career progression for non academic staff, from... more...
Breaking the Cycle of Educational Alienationby Colin Pritchard
McGraw-Hill Education 2006; US$ 43.98Shows how the cycle of educational alienation can be broken, to enable parents and schools to work together to contribute to children's educational, social and emotional well-being. This book is a useful reading for teachers and trainee teachers, child psychologists, educational psychologists and social workers. more...
Retention and Student Success in Higher Educationby Mantz Yorke
McGraw-Hill Education 2004; US$ 130.00Issues of retention and student success are topics of great interest. Government and the HE sector have woken up to the implications for public finance and equity of students not completing their studies. This book is useful for policy makers, higher education managers, and lecturers. more...
College Attrition at American Research Universitiesby Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95Why do some colleges exhibit higher student attrition than expected? This is the first work to present case studies based on specific institutions; it also adds an important voice from the students themselves on the practical concerns that affect attritio more...









