{"id":15216,"date":"2011-07-30T02:32:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15216"},"modified":"2011-07-30T02:32:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T02:32:30","slug":"identifying-interventions-to-improve-the-retention-of-biracial-students-a-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15216","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Interventions to Improve the Retention of Biracial Students: A Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2190\/QT6X-MH0T-EAKJ-U6RF\" target=\"_blank\">Identifying Interventions to Improve the Retention of Biracial Students: A Case Study<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice\u00a0<br \/>\nVolume 5, Number 4 (2003-2004)<br \/>\npages 349-363<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Sands<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Johnson &amp; Wales University, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John H. Schuh<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies<br \/>\n<em>Iowa State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biracial students represent a growing number of students on many campuses and an increasingly significant segment of the population of the United States. Nevertheless, this group of students rarely has been studied with respect as to how their experiences affect persistence at colleges and universities. This case study reports on the experiences of biracial students at one institution. It also analyzes their racial identity development and presents recommendations designed to improve their persistence to graduation framed by <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.soe.syr.edu\/vtinto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tinto&#8217;s theory<\/a> of academic departure. Recommendations for additional study are presented.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2190\/QT6X-MH0T-EAKJ-U6RF\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying Interventions to Improve the Retention of Biracial Students: A Case Study Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice\u00a0 Volume 5, Number 4 (2003-2004) pages 349-363 Nicole Sands Johnson &amp; Wales University, Colorado John H. Schuh, Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Iowa State University Biracial students represent a growing number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[7039,7040,7037,7038],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-john-h-schuh","tag-john-schuh","tag-journal-of-college-student-retention-research-theory-and-practice","tag-nicole-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}