Intentional student development and retention

Abstract

T h e preeminent requirement for successful student retention is cooperation between academic and student affairs domains.

Collaboration between student affairs and academic affairs: an exploratory study

“…Researchers suggest that this type of collaborative effort is necessary to enhance the student learning experience (American Association for Higher Education, American College Personnel Association, and National Association for Student Personnel Administrators, 1998;Banta & Kuh, 1998;Hutchings, 1996;Schroeder, Minor, & Tarkow, 1999b). Stodt (1987) maintained that "both the academic and the student affairs domains of college life [are] essential to an excellent education and to the kinds of satisfaction and support that would encourage students to persist through college" (p. 21 ).…”