Open AccessFaculty/librarian collaborations enhance doctoral student success: Strategies for retention and graduation
Author(s) -
Yuhui Chen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.79.10.560
Subject(s) - attrition , graduation (instrument) , medical education , psychology , neglect , graduate students , qualitative research , retention rate , pedagogy , sociology , medicine , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , social science , dentistry , psychiatry , computer security
Doctoral study is perhaps the most rigorous educational experience anybody can have. In higher education, a great amount of effort has been focused on increasing retention and graduation rates of undergraduate students. Yet, there has been little discussion about effective qualitative measures for retaining and graduating doctoral students. This neglect masks the reality that doctoral student attrition rates in the United States have been problematic for several years. A meta-analysis conducted in 2001 showed that about 50% to 71% of doctoral candidates in the humanities did not complete their degrees.1