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Finding the Edge of Chaos: Adjunctive Faculty's Influence on Student Retention /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Finding the Edge of Chaos: Adjunctive Faculty's Influence on Student Retention // Jolanta A Weber.
Author:	Weber, Jolanta A.,
Description:	1 electronic resource (313 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International78-11A.
Subject:	Educational leadership. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10587825
ISBN:	9781369686845

Finding the Edge of Chaos: Adjunctive Faculty's Influence on Student Retention /
Weber, Jolanta A.,

Finding the Edge of Chaos: Adjunctive Faculty's Influence on Student Retention /Jolanta A Weber. - 1 electronic resource (313 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11, Section: A.

The pragmatic value of a college education is invaluable to the college-educated individuals themselves and to society. With nearly 21 million undergraduates currently enrolled in more than 4,700 American colleges and universities, the average graduation rate of about 67% has increased little since the 1960s. Of the 1 5 million faculty in today's classrooms, more than 50% are part-time and only about 25%-30% of today's faculty are tenured or in tenure-track positions. Though much scholarship is available on retention theory and the importance of faculty in student success, only minimal empirical research is available on the different types of faculty and their respective influence on student success. Since colleges and universities are complex organizations and always faced with changing environmental forces, for pragmatic reasons of survival and mission fulfillment their leaders must be intentional in adapting to their challenging environments and finding the balance between too much stability and too much disorder, or their edge of chaos. Through statistical analyses of student-record level enrollment data of 3,463 freshmen, I identified Gonzaga University's edge of chaos with respect to the influence of adjuncts on freshman-to-sophomore retention. I found that freshmen who took between 20% and 40% of their courses from adjuncts were associated with the highest retention to the second year, whereas freshmen with no adjuncts were associated with the lowest freshman-to-sophomore retention. Keywords: undergraduate retention; enrollment trends; degree attainment; contingent faculty; adjunctive faculty; organization theory; edge of chaos; adaptive leadership; pragmatism.

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ISBN: 9781369686845Subjects--Topical Terms:

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