TY - BOOK AU - Fleming,Jacqueline TI - Enhancing minority student retention and academic performance T2 - The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series SN - 9780787957131 (hardback) U1 - 378.1 JAC 2012 23236 23 PY - 2012///] CY - San Francisco PB - Jossey-Bass KW - College dropouts KW - Prevention KW - Case studies KW - Minorities KW - Education (Higher) KW - United States KW - Educational evaluation KW - EDUCATION / Higher KW - bisacsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and indexes N2 - "In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing academic performance among minority students and includes models of evaluations that describe successful programs that use statistical methods to verify outcomes"-- ER -