College Completion Glasshalf-Full Or Half-Empty? - Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education

This book presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on "the value added" of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with successful non-completers.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Graduation Rates 101
Chapter 2: The College Completion Agenda
Chapter 3: The Politics of College Rankings
Chapter 4: College Attrition and the "Value Added" Proposition
Chapter 5: HBCUs, MSIs, and the College Completion Game
Chapter 6: Case Studies: Stories of College Attrition and Student Success
Chapter 7: College Attrition and the Popular Culture
Chapter 8: Half-Full and Half-Empty: The Completers vs. the Non-Completers
Chapter 9: It's Not a Deficit Model: Increasing Retention and Fostering Completion
Chapter 10: What's Next: Changing the Paradigm
About the Author

About the author

By Tiffany Beth Mfume

Product details

• Authors: Tiffany Beth Mfume, Mfume Tiffany Beth
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781475839593
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3959-3
• No. of pages: 154
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, Adult education, continuous learning, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher