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Understanding Student Departure: Identifying Primary Factors Attributable to Attrition Among First-Year Students: A Consultative Retention Analysis Study for Kentucky Wesleyan College
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-05)
The following project responds to a request by Kentucky Wesleyan College (KWC) to examine their student departure problem. Specifically, the KWC first-year retention rate is 54.8% (2006 freshman cohort, n= 323), well below ...
California State University, East Bay: A Strengths-based Examination of First-Year Student Retention at the Most Ethnically Diverse University in the Country
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-05)
California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) is one of twenty-three universities in the California State University (CSU) system and is a highly diverse, four-year, public university located in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
The Long Road: Adult Student Retention at a Rural Community College: A Case Study
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)
To understand and enhance the adult student retention rates, Dyersburg State Community College (DSSC) contacted the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University to have graduate students conduct a study of the adult student ...
An Explanatory Model of First Year Retention: Application and Adaptation of Braxton, Doyle, Hartley, Hirschy, Jones & McLendon's Rethinking College Student Retention
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)
On average, more than a quarter of all entering first-time, full-time students do not return to
their institution for a second year. One in five fail to persist at all. Yet, “of the 45 percent of
students who start college ...
Value & Values: How Parents Experience the Process of Choosing a School
(2022-08)
The goal of this capstone project is to help an organization solve a problem of practice. We partnered with Southfield School, an independent elementary and middle school, struggling with increased attrition rates as the ...