The First Year of College Feldman Paperback Cambridge University Press

The First Year of CollegeResearch, Theory, and Practice on Improving the Student Experience and Increasing Retention\nAuthor(s): Robert S. Feldman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316629383, 978-1316629383\nSynopsis\nThis book is premised on a very powerful social/educational concern about college retention rates: one-third of first-year students seriously consider leaving college during their first term, and only half of all students who start college ultimately graduate. This book examines the first year of college from a variety of perspectives to paint a comprehensive picture of the intersecting challenges facing today's students and higher education institutions. Technological advances, increases in college attendance costs, and increasing political pressure on colleges to prove their value have changed the landscape of the first year of college, but researchers have identified new approa.