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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
Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume is the Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention at Morgan State University where her leadership has helped to promote ten point increases in both retention and graduation rates. The Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention manages new student and parent orientation, placement testing, Starfish Retention Solutions' Early Alert and Connect systems, academic advisement, financial literacy, alumni mentoring, and academic recovery among other programs and services. Dr. Mfume is author of the nationally recognized book, What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates, published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield.
