The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success

The Routledge Handbook on Postsecondary Student Success offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of student success in postsecondary education.

This handbook addresses critical issues in student success, such as student engagement, mental health, and degree completion to provide valuable insights on promoting student success holistically and systematically, for students from different backgrounds or in different institutional contexts. It also offers a robust understanding of how to study and enhance student success by exploring the significance of data, analytics, and various research methods. Using evidence-based insights and practical strategies and offering key concepts, theories, and best practices, this handbook serves as a guide to promoting overall student success and closing success gaps.

With forty chapters authored by leading thinkers in higher education, this handbook is an indispensable resource for postsecondary administrators, faculty, staff, practitioners, graduate students, researchers, and policymakers. It informs and inspires efforts to improve student outcomes and create more supportive environments, so students everywhere can succeed and flourish.

Shouping Hu is the Louis W. and Elizabeth N. Bender Endowed Professor of Higher Education and the founding director of the Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) at Florida State University, USA.

Joe O’Shea is Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Florida State University, USA.