How College Students Succeed: Making Meaning Across Disciplinary Perspectives

Review "Essential. Timely. Requisite reading. This interdisciplinary compendium not only provides a theoretical framework to advance our knowledge of college student success, but also serves as an indispensable guide for higher education institutions to anticipate the post-pandemic needs of our students and eliminate the institutional barriers that inhibit their success. How College Students Succeed will help inform practice for years to come."--Doneka R. Scott "Vice Chancellor and Dean for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, North Carolina State University""Identifying how to improve college success for students from underserved groups is one of the most important challenges facing higher education leaders, policymakers, and researchers. This volume recognizes how multiple disciplinary perspectives inform understanding of this vexing problem and potential solutions. By bringing together different theories and frameworks, this volume provides new insights into what we know - and what we still need to know - to enable all students to succeed in college."--Laura W. Perna "GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and Vice Provost for Faculty, University of Pennsylvania""Nick Bowman is probably the nation's leading scholar on student success in college. He has pulled together a talented group of authors to focus on the different dimensions of student success. The result is a work that should be required reading for all faculty and administrators concerned about students and the impact of college."--Ernest T. Pascarella "Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Student Affairs, University of Iowa" Product Description Receiving a college education has perhaps never been more important than it is today. While its personal, societal, and overall economic benefits are well documented, too many college students fail to complete their postsecondary education. As colleges and universities are investing substantial resources into efforts to counter these attrition rates and increase retention, they are mostly unaware of the robust literature on student success that is often bounded in disciplinary silos.The purpose of this book is to bring together in a single volume the extensive knowledge on college student success. It includes seven chapters from authors who each synthesize the literature from their own field of study, or perspective. Each describes the theories, models, and concepts they use; summarizes the key findings from their research; and provides implications for practice, policy, and/or research.The disciplinary chapters offer perspectives from higher education, public policy, behavioral economics, social psychology, STEM, sociology, and critical and post-structural theory. About the Author Nicholas A. Bowmanisthe Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, senior research fellow inthe Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research onUndergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His work uses a socialpsychological lens to explore key issues in higher education, including studentsuccess, equity and diversity, undergraduate admissions, college rankings, andquantitative research methodology. He has written nearly 100 peer-reviewedjournal articles that have appeared in outlets such as Review of EducationalResearch, Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation andPolicy Analysis, American Educational Research Journal, Journalof Research on Educational Effectiveness, Sociology of Education, SocialPsychological and Personality Science, and Science Advances. He isalso an author of the third volume of How College Affects Students, which systematically reviewed over 1,800 studies on the short-term andlong-term effects of postsecondary education. Dr. Bowman's research has alsoreceived popular attention through articles in National Public Radio, TheNew York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Atlantic, The HuffingtonPost, and other outlets. He has received the A