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Achieving Student Success : Effective Student Services in Canadian Higher Education.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773575721
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Achieving Student SuccessDDC classification:
  • 378.1/940971
LOC classification:
  • LB2342.94 .C3 A34 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF STUDENT SERVICES -- 1 Foundations of Student Services in Canadian Higher Education -- 2 Theoretical Foundations of Student Success -- PART TWO: FORMS, FUNCTIONS, AND PRACTICES: STRUCTURING SERVICES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS -- Matriculation -- 3 Enrolment Management, Admissions, and Registrar Services -- 4 Student Financial Assistance and Scholarship Services -- 5 Orientation and First-Year Services -- Accommodation, Engagement, and Involvement -- 6 Housing and Residence Life -- 7 Student Leadership, Involvement, and Service Learning -- 8 Student Judicial Affairs and Academic Integrity -- Support and Adjustment -- 9 Counselling Services -- 10 Health and Wellness Services -- 11 Career and Employment Services -- 12 Services for Diverse Students -- 13 Organizing, Leading, and Managing Student Services -- PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL MISSION AND CONTEXT -- 14 Student Services in College -- 15 Student Services in University -- 16 Student Services at a Distance -- PART FOUR: ACHIEVING STUDENT SUCCESS: CONCLUSION -- 17 Principles and Strategies of Good Practice in Student Services -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: In today's colleges and universities, whether students succeed depends in large part on access to effective services that can support and guide them in pursuit of their educational goals. Policy and practice in the field of student services has been largely based on professional literature from US sources. Donna Hardy Cox and Carney Strange offer the first comprehensive description of professional student services in Canadian colleges and universities from the perspective of the practitioner-scholars who create and lead them.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF STUDENT SERVICES -- 1 Foundations of Student Services in Canadian Higher Education -- 2 Theoretical Foundations of Student Success -- PART TWO: FORMS, FUNCTIONS, AND PRACTICES: STRUCTURING SERVICES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS -- Matriculation -- 3 Enrolment Management, Admissions, and Registrar Services -- 4 Student Financial Assistance and Scholarship Services -- 5 Orientation and First-Year Services -- Accommodation, Engagement, and Involvement -- 6 Housing and Residence Life -- 7 Student Leadership, Involvement, and Service Learning -- 8 Student Judicial Affairs and Academic Integrity -- Support and Adjustment -- 9 Counselling Services -- 10 Health and Wellness Services -- 11 Career and Employment Services -- 12 Services for Diverse Students -- 13 Organizing, Leading, and Managing Student Services -- PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL MISSION AND CONTEXT -- 14 Student Services in College -- 15 Student Services in University -- 16 Student Services at a Distance -- PART FOUR: ACHIEVING STUDENT SUCCESS: CONCLUSION -- 17 Principles and Strategies of Good Practice in Student Services -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

In today's colleges and universities, whether students succeed depends in large part on access to effective services that can support and guide them in pursuit of their educational goals. Policy and practice in the field of student services has been largely based on professional literature from US sources. Donna Hardy Cox and Carney Strange offer the first comprehensive description of professional student services in Canadian colleges and universities from the perspective of the practitioner-scholars who create and lead them.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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