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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-40741-9
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Educational Leadership and Higher Education
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The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This study investigated academic advising and retention in a Gulf-Arab university. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered in order to understand how academic advising could have potentially contributed to the improvement of student retention. The focus of the study was on first-year students in the College of Business and Economics and the College of Law in a Gulf-Arab national four-year institution. The study compared the Grade Point Average (GPA) and the number of credit hours in two groups of first-year students: 1) a treatment group of students who utilized academic advising services and (2) the control group of students who did not.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Educational leadership; Higher education
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Subject Term
Education;Attrition;College;First year students;Gulf arab;Persistence;Retention