The best-selling instructional and educational text centered on college student retention and graduation

Would you like to read a book centered on helping college students to be successful?

Look no further. Dr. McPherson has designed a practical guide to help higher education professionals, administrators, faculty members, staff, students, and families to understand the unique challenges and current needs of college students. This book is perfect for anyone interested learning more about college dropout prevention, mentoring, academic advising, academic success coaching, financial aid, campus resources, and more.

Each chapter has case examples of how Dr. McPherson has supported college students (e.g., African American, Asian, Latinx, White) from diverse backgrounds (e.g., first-generation, international, students with disabilities) by helping them to overcome obstacles (e.g., academic, financial, social, and life’s issues) until they achieved their goals from freshman year through graduation.

She has also developed a college student retention and graduation model that she calls Real Outreach. This model encourages higher education professionals, institutional leaders, staff, and faculty members to rethink how they provide outreach so that students are fully supported when they endure challenges in college. By using the Real Outreach model outlined in the text, Dr. McPherson is confident that your institution can raise student retention and graduation rates!

Higher education professionals, college administrators, and faculty members can benefit from the book by learning the best practices to retain and graduate at-risk college students.

The book will also be of interest to high school students, college bound students, college students and their families so that they can learn about some challenges that college students endure while pursuing a college degree. They can also benefit from learning about useful campus resources.

Perfect for public libraries, high school and college libraries.

Perfect for high school courses, including:
Adult Education, College and Career Readiness, College-Prep, English-Short stories, Summer reading for high school juniors and seniors

Perfect for college courses such as:
The first-year experience, English-Short stories, Reading course, The College Student

Perfect for graduate school courses, including:
Adult Education, The College Student, Diversity in Higher Education