Lit Review 1

Citation:Tinto, V. 1999. “Taking Student Success Seriously: Rethinking the First Year of College.” NACADA Journal 19 no. 5: 5-9.

Summary: Tinto speaks to the five main factors impacting colleges when it comes to the retention of college students. These five factors are expectation, support, feedback, involvment and learning. He goes to show how each of these factors play a cruical role in retaining college students.

Author: Vincent Tinto is a Distinguished University Professor at Syracuse University and former chair of the Higher Education Program. He is very well known for his reserach and writing on higher education and learning communities and how they impact student success.

Key Concepts:

Involvement: In order to retain students, students must feel involved at the university, whether that is with staff or friends. Their graduation depends on the connections they are able to build.

Learning Communities: Registration of courses that enables students to take courses together rather than apart. This enables the material they learn to be applicabe and somehow related to the other classes they are taking.

Quotes:

-"The more students are academically and socially involved, the more likely are they to persist and graduate" pg 3

-"A wide range of studies in a variety of settings and for a range of students have confirmed that the more frequently students engage with faculty, staff, and their peers, the more likely, other things being equally, that they will persist and graduate. Simply put involvement matters" pg 3-4

- "Even among students who persist, students who are more involved in learning, especially with others, learn more and show greater levels of intellectual development" pg 4

Value:

Tinto talks about how much a key role involvement with faculty and friends plays in staying in college. This is the exact time of involvement commuter students lack overall. They do not have time for this type of involvement because of the other types of obligations they have in order to just go to school. Thus, not being involved, plays a major role in their ability to stay in school.