TY - JOUR
T1 - The Tertiary Experience
T2 - Of Social Integration, Retention and Persistence – A Review
AU - Abdul-Rahaman, Nurudeen
AU - Terentev, Evgeniy
AU - Arkorful, Vincent Ekow
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - In addition to illuminating personal and institutional factors that facilitate social integration of students in higher education, the current study delineates their effects on retention and persistence. The systematic literature review approach is employed to broach and synthesize seminal studies conducted between 2010 and 2021. Among other prominent factors, the study outcomes underscore not only peer interaction, student-faculty interaction, extracurricular and residential activities, but also, other attributes like financial opportunities, language proficiency and communication skills as imperative underpinnings and correlates of social integration and retention in higher education. In view of these findings, the study proffers suggestions for policy and research.
AB - In addition to illuminating personal and institutional factors that facilitate social integration of students in higher education, the current study delineates their effects on retention and persistence. The systematic literature review approach is employed to broach and synthesize seminal studies conducted between 2010 and 2021. Among other prominent factors, the study outcomes underscore not only peer interaction, student-faculty interaction, extracurricular and residential activities, but also, other attributes like financial opportunities, language proficiency and communication skills as imperative underpinnings and correlates of social integration and retention in higher education. In view of these findings, the study proffers suggestions for policy and research.
KW - Higher education
KW - Institutional factors
KW - Personal factors
KW - Social integration
KW - Student retention
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85129395775
U2 - 10.1007/s11115-022-00603-2
DO - 10.1007/s11115-022-00603-2
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1566-7170
VL - 23
SP - 133
EP - 147
JO - Public Organization Review
JF - Public Organization Review
IS - 1
ER -
