Understanding the Organizational Nature of Student Persistence: Empirically-Based Recommendations for Practice
Open Access
- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice
- Vol. 3 (1), 3-21
- https://doi.org/10.2190/3k6a-2rec-gju5-8280
Abstract
This article builds on the assumption that colleges and universities are organizations and subsequently that the organizational perspective provides important insights for improving retention on college and university campuses. A review of existing organizational studies of undergraduate persistence serves as the basis for ten empirically-based recommendations for practice that are designed to help campus leaders improve the effectiveness of retention efforts on campus.Keywords
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