An Explanatory Model of First Year Retention: Application and Adaptation of Braxton, Doyle, Hartley, Hirschy, Jones & McLendon's Rethinking College Student Retention
Coyne, Colin
Stokes, Alexis
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2017-05
Abstract
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 and fail to complete their degree, less than one-quarter are dismissed
for poor academic performance. Most leave for other reasons” (Kuh, et al., 2006). Central
Methodist University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with its residential undergraduate
enrollment of 1,900 students and a first-year retention rate of 66%, is emblematic of hundreds of
small to mid-sized liberal arts colleges and bachelor-degree granting universities dotting the
landscape of higher education. Based heavily but not exclusively on Braxton, et al.’s Rethinking
College Student Retention (2014), this study focuses on Central Methodist University against
which established theory is applied in search of pragmatic, actionable strategies supportive of
student retention.
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