College Completion Glass-Half-Full or Half-Empty? (eBook)

Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume is the Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention at Morgan State University where herleadership has helped to promote ten point increases in both retention and graduation rates. The Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention manages new student and parent orientation, placement testing, Starfish Retention Solutions’ Early Alert and Connect systems, academic advisement, financial literacy, alumni mentoring, and academic recovery among other programs and services. Dr. Mfume is author of the nationally recognized book, What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates, published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Graduation Rates 101 Chapter 2: The College Completion AgendaChapter 3: The Politics of College RankingsChapter 4: College Attrition and the “Value Added” PropositionChapter 5: HBCUs, MSIs, and the College Completion GameChapter 6: Case Studies: Stories of College Attrition and Student SuccessChapter 7: College Attrition and the Popular CultureChapter 8: Half-Full and Half-Empty: The Completers vs. the Non-CompletersChapter 9: It’s Not a Deficit Model: Increasing Retention and Fostering CompletionChapter 10: What’s Next: Changing the ParadigmAbout the Author