What Do These Student Success Stories Tell Us?

  • Patrick Sullivan
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Abstract

The personal stories featured in this section of the book demonstrate the need to theorize a more fluid, less rigid understanding of student transition to higher education. Even this brief glimpse into the dizzying variety of ways that students now transition to higher education and pursue a college degree suggests the need for a more open and accommodating understanding of this important transition point in American lives. The work of Trevor Gale and Stephen Parker (“Navigating Change: A Typology of Student Transition in Higher Education”) and a recent report from American College Testing (ACT) about this subject, “The Reality of College Readiness 2013,” make it abundantly clear that traditional ideas about attending college have become outmoded.

Keywords

High Education Community College Stereotype Threat Graduation Rate Attribution Theory 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Patrick Sullivan
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  1. 1.Manchester Community CollegeManchesterUSA

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