Overview

The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of student success in postsecondary education. This handbook addresses critical issues in student success, such as student engagement, mental health, and degree completion to provide valuable insights on promoting student success holistically and systematically, for students from different backgrounds or in different institutional contexts. It also offers a robust understanding of how to study and enhance student success by exploring the significance of data, analytics, and various research methods. Using evidence-based insights and practical strategies and offering key concepts, theories, and best practices, this handbook serves as a guide to promoting overall student success and closing success gaps. With forty chapters authored by leading thinkers in higher education, this handbook is an indispensable resource for postsecondary administrators, faculty, staff, practitioners, graduate students, researchers, and policymakers. It informs and inspires efforts to improve student outcomes and create more supportive environments, so students everywhere can succeed and flourish.

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9781032642185

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Reviews

“This book provides an excellent and broad array of contributions from leading scholars who study various aspects of postsecondary student success. These chapters explore success among diverse student and institutional populations, and they shed considerable insight into practices and policies that are based on sound research evidence.” Nicholas A. Bowman, Ph.D., Mary Louise Peterson Chair in Higher Education, University of Iowa, USA “This handbook is an outstanding collection of insights from some of the most influential scholars in the field, tackling the complexities of student success from every angle. Whether you’re a researcher, practitioner, or policymaker, this book delivers fresh perspectives and actionable strategies that will shape the way we support students for years to come.” Victor B. Sáenz, Ph.D., L. D. Haskew Centennial Professor in Public School Administration, University of Texas at Austin, USA “The goal of helping students succeed in college is evergreen but the strategies that colleges and universities use are always evolving. This handbook arrives at a pivotal time in higher education, as it explains how professionals can effectively support students amid a rapidly changing set of contexts.” Amelia Parnell, Ph.D., President, NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, USA “By providing accurate and responsible information regarding college and its effects on students, this volume complicates student success, theoretically, methodologically, and critically. The volume’s contributors represent the best higher education thought-leaders whose collective voice addresses the place of empirical work in shaping agendas in both policy and practice.” Matthew J. Mayhew, Ph.D., William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Educational Administration, The Ohio State University, USA “This handbook takes a comprehensive look at student success in the 21st century. Dr. Hu is a pioneer in the field. He and his co-editor have brought together a great group of higher education thought-leaders to continue and expand the critical conversation on student success and lend practical applications for campus leaders.” Joy Gaston Gayles, Ph.D., Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor, North Carolina State University, USA

Author Information

Shouping Hu is the Louis W. and Elizabeth N. Bender Endowed Professor of Higher Education and the Founding Director of the Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) at Florida State University, USA. Joe O’Shea is Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Florida State University, USA.

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