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Promoting Student Success: What Faculty Members Can Do. Occasional Paper No. 6
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Kinzie, Jillian – National Survey of Student Engagement, 2005
What students do in college matters as much as anything else in terms of their educational success. Educationally effective colleges and universities - those that add value to the student experience - intentionally craft policies and practices that channel students' energy to the activities that matter to student learning. Students who…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduation Rate, Course Content, Student Experience
Examining the Ways Institutions Create Student Engagement: The Role of Mission
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Kezar, Adrianna J.; Kinzie, Jillian L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2006
This article reviews the results from an in-depth multi-site case study of 20 institutions examining approaches to student engagement exploring differences by mission. The research questions pursued were: Is mission related to distinctive approaches for creating an engaging environment for students? If so, in what ways? The results demonstrate a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Environment, Student School Relationship, Institutional Mission
Unmasking the Effects of Student Engagement on First-Year College Grades and Persistence
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Kuh, George D.; Cruce, Ty M.; Shoup, Rick; Kinzie, Jillian; Gonyea, Robert M. – Journal of Higher Education, 2008
This study aims to determine the relationships between key student behaviors and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success. To do so, student-level records from different types of colleges and universities are merged to examine the links between student engagement and two key outcomes of college: academic achievement…
Descriptors: Relationship, Student Behavior, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
Women Students at Coeducational and Women's Colleges: How Do Their Experiences Compare?
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Kinzie, Jillian L.; Thomas, Auden D.; Palmer, Megan M.; Umbach, Paul D.; Kuh, George D. – Journal of College Student Development, 2007
This study compared the experiences of women attending women's colleges with those of women attending coeducational institutions. Analyses of data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) from random samples of female first-year and senior students from 26 women's colleges and 264 other four-year institutions were conducted. Women at…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Practices, White Students, Transfer Students
Never Let It Rest: Lessons about Student Success from High-Performing Colleges and Universities
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Kuh, George D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Schuh, John H.; Whitt, Elizabeth J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
College costs are rising and enrollments are at an all-time high, yet the proportion of students earning degrees has stayed more or less constant for decades. This leads some to conclude that colleges aren't holding up their end of the educational bargain. The question, Do they graduate? is receiving the most scrutiny by state legislatures and by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Higher Education, Graduation Rate
Student Success. March 2006
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Online Submission, 2006
"Student Success" is EPI's occasional e-magazine dedicated to the discussion of retaining students in higher education. Over the course of the next issues of "Student Success," the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) will explore three questions about retention on our college campuses. Part I will look at the barriers to student retention, both…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, School Holding Power