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2021

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How Interactions With Staff Relate To Students' Early-Career Success At Small Residential Colleges, Donna L. Fenton Apr 2021

How Interactions With Staff Relate To Students' Early-Career Success At Small Residential Colleges, Donna L. Fenton

STEMPS Theses & Dissertations

College completion in the United States is a complex and incessant problem resistant to change despite decades of effort. To address a precursor to completion, this quantitative study focused on early-career success within college. The problem of this study was to examine settings beyond large research universities and explore how interactions with professional staff affect student success.

Non-experimental research was conducted in Fall 2020, the first full semester of in-person education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were recruited from first-year seminars (FYS) and follow-up seminars (FUS) at a small residential college in the Midwest region of the United States. Of …