Introduction: reworking the student departure puzzle / John M. Braxton
The viability of academic integration as a central construct in Tinto's interactionalist theory of college student departure / John M. Braxton and Leigh A. Lien
Economic influences on persistence reconsidered: how can finance research inform the reconceptualization of persistence models? / Edward P. St. John ... [et al.]
A psychological model of college student retention / John P. Bean and Shevawn Bogdan Eaton
College climate and the Tinto model / Leonard L. Baird
Linking learning and leaving: exploring the role of the college classroom in student departure / Vincent Tinto
Optimizing capital, social reproduction, and undergraduate persistence: a sociological perspective / Joseph B. Berger
Theoretical considerations in the study of minority student retention in higher education / Laura I. Rendón, Romero E. Jalomo, and Amaury Nora
Investigating the processes of persistence: refining discourse analysis as a tool for generating new departure theory / Robert M. Johnson Jr.
Where is the student?: linking student behaviors, college choice, and college persistence / Francis K. Stage and Don Hossler
A cultural perspective on student departure / George D. Kuh and Patrick G. Love
Power, identity, and the dilemma of college student departure / William G. Tierney
New institutional theory and student departure / Berta Vigil Laden, Jeffrey F. Milem, and Robert L. Crowson
Conclusion: reinvigorating theory and research on the departure puzzle / John M. Braxton.
