- Title
- Evaluating sociocultural influences affecting participation and understanding of academic support services and programs (SSPs): Impacts on notions of attrition, retention, and success in higher education
- Creator
- Weuffen, Sara; Fotinatos, Nina; Andrews, Tulsa
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/176833
- Identifier
- vital:15216
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1521025118803847
- Identifier
- ISBN:1521-0251 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- While no major change in relation to student attrition and retention data has been recorded over the past 20 years, the increasingly neoliberal agenda imposed on Australian higher education institutions has led to increased scrutiny around such data. In this case study, we explore discourses of attrition and retention to understand better the unique needs of students, and influences of targeted student support programs, as they transition to a regional higher education learning environment. We applied a mixed methods approach via a poststructuralist lens to identify frequency of nodes in relation to dimensions of the Kahu’s conceptual framework of engagement, antecedents and consequences model and present staff (n=6) and student (n=7) perceptions about the tangible value of knowledge, engagement, participation, and reportable outcomes of student support programs. Our findings indicate that staff tend to view student support programs from deficit discourses, whereas students view them as empowering. © The Author(s) 2018.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Relation
- Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice Vol. 23, no. 1 (2021), p. 118-138
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ The Author(s) 2018
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1301 Education Systems; Higher education; Kahu’s model; Neoliberal discourse analysis; Poststructuralism; Student attrition; Student retention; Student support programs; Transition pedagogy
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- We wish to thank the Shaping the 21st Century student experience at regional universities project team for the opportunity to participate in the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching Strategic Priority Project (Reference SP14-4602). The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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