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Index Academic advising, 7, 41, 93 Access, in composition studies scholarship , 15; to higher education, 16, 34, 37, 96, 98 Admissions policy, 16, 76. See also Open admissions American Graduation Initiative, 2 Astin, Alexander W., 16, 65–66 “At risk,” 83 Attrition, definition of, 73 Basic writing, 16–17, 96–98, 122–123 Berger, Joseph B., 34 Birkenstein, Cathy, 124 Bousquet, Marc, 58–59, 61, 74 Burke, Kenneth, 5 Chaput, Catherine, 56–57, 76 Chronos, 12 City University of New York (CUNY), 97 College as an investment, 3, 17, 26, 45, 88–89 College Board, 2 College Completion Agenda, 2 College Scorecard, 2 Columbia College Chicago, 1, 38, 68–75 Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education , 2 Complete College America, 2 Contingent faculty. See Part-time faculty Contingent labor. See Part-time faculty Corporatization of higher education, 25, 56–66 Critical discourse analysis (CDA), 24, 53–55, 82n1 Crowley, Sharon, 10–11 Disability studies, 98 Dolmage, Jay, 18, 98, 125–128 Downs, Douglas, 114 Dropouts, definition of, 107 Duke University, 121–122 Durkheim, Emile, 94–95, 105n1 Durst, Russel K., 10 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 26, 91 Enrollment management, 35, 63 Fairclough, Norman, 24, 53–55, 75; and intertextuality, 71; and nominalization , 70; and promotional culture, 63–66 First-year experience, 7 First-year seminar, 7, 8, 93 First-year students, 7 Fox, Tom, 15, 118 Frost, Robert, 5 Gates Foundation, 2 Gladwell, Malcolm, 86–87 Graduation rates, 2, 16, 33, 52, 64–65, 99. See also Retention, rates Graff, Gerald, 124 Greenberg, Karen, 97 Harvard University, 15, 97, 113 Hawhee, Debra, 13, 120, 124 Horner, Bruce, 116–117, 120–121 Hyllegard, David, 17 In loco parentis, 39 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2, 3 Jarratt, Susan, 20, 112 Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 35 Kairos, 12, 116, 119, 120, 125. See also Kairotic pedagogy Kairotic pedagogy, 13–14, 30, 49–51, 117–125. See also Kairos Kress, Gunther, 123 144   index Lavin, David, 17 Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition, 22, 27, 93–95 Leslie, Larry L., 57 Lu, Min-Zhan, 116–117, 120–121 Lyon, Susan C., 34 Mack, Katherine, 20, 112 Mauk, Johnathan, 115–116, 119, 125 Metaphor, 5 Metonymy, 5, 60 Miller, Carolyn, 120, 124 Miller, Richard E., 9, 108–109 Multimodality, 123–124 New media, 123–124 Obama, Barack, 1, 3, 85 Open admissions, 15, 96. See also Admissions policy Part-time faculty, 44, 58–60 “Pedagogical memory,” 20 Persistence, definition of, 6, 73 Powell, Douglas Reichert, 109 Rate My Professor, 63 Remedial education, 16, 17–18 Remediation. See remedial education Retention: consultants, 35; definition of, 6; discourse of, 5, 20, 25, 52–67; rates, 6, 33, 52, 65, 66; and role of faculty, 40, 41–44; and role of parents, 38–39; scholarship and research, 5, 8, 22, 31, 33–36, 49, 52–53; and self-efficacy, 40–41 Roemer, Marjorie, 10 Saltz, Laura, 112–113 Sandage, Scott, 86–87 Sartor, Alexandra, 20, 112 Schultz, Lucille M., 10 Scott, Tony, 44, 120–121 Seidman, Alan, 53 Shor, Ira, 97 Slaughter, Sheila, 57, 63 Smit, David W., 108–109, 112 Smith, Jeff, 10 Smith, John E., 12, 14 Soliday, Mary, 17 Sommers, Nancy, 112–113 Standard American English, 16 Stayouts, definition of, 107 Sternglass, Marilyn, 17, 112–113 Stopouts, definition of, 107 Student affairs, 7, 8, 64 Student debt, 26, 47, 89–91, 104. See also Student loans Student Faculty Partnership for Success program, 18–19, 39 Student life. See Student affairs Student loans, 26, 89–91, 104, 134n2. See also Student debt Student Right-to-Know Act. See Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act, 2, 64 Student Satisfaction Inventory, 63 Tinto, Vincent, 22, 27, 33, 92–95, 105n1 Total Quality Management (TQM), 35, 61–63 Transfer, in composition studies, 13, 28–29, 111–117; in science of learning, 111 Universal design (UD), 18, 125–128, 131 U.S. News and World Report, 64–65 Villanueva, Victor, 86 Wardle, Elizabeth, 114 Watson, Shevaun, 20, 112 Wells, Susan, 79 Why Johnny Can’t Read, 3 Williams, Jeffrey, 88 Williams, Raymond, 67 Wodak, Ruth, 24 ...

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