George Mason University makes student’s academic careers a top priority when it comes to student success. To defend this statement; interviews, flyers, and George Mason’s Student Support Resources website became helpful evidence to verify Mason’s graduation rates and percent of students who have landed jobs straight out of college.
In Longerbeam’s article “Challenge and Support for the 21st Century: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Student Success” Longerbeam performs a holistic approach to the study concerning college freshmen in transition and how student’s academic success can find a correlation between challenge and success. According to Longerbeam’s research on student’s transition to college, the findings concluded that students found faculty members that were helpful to them and shared an emotional intelligence connection to them (Longerbeam:42). For this study, interviews were conducted consisting of upperclassmen who have found Mason’s academic tools …show more content…
George Mason University’s graduation rate is at a high of 68.2% as well as having a retention rate of 87.0%(CollegeFactual) and half of the students with undergraduate degrees are employed part-time or full-time at the time of graduation(FKD). Similar to Longerbeam’s piece, this study has its flawless within the interview, not having enough diverse students in the interview portion of the evidence causing the study to not be as accurate. All four students interviewed were white females with no ethnic backgrounds and being one sophomore, one junior, and two senior undergraduate students. The strengths of this study are of the percent of Graduate students, retention rate, and post-graduate outcomes and the information the university’s website provided on the academic resources Mason has to
In Longerbeam’s article “Challenge and Support for the 21st Century: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Student Success” Longerbeam performs a holistic approach to the study concerning college freshmen in transition and how student’s academic success can find a correlation between challenge and success. According to Longerbeam’s research on student’s transition to college, the findings concluded that students found faculty members that were helpful to them and shared an emotional intelligence connection to them (Longerbeam:42). For this study, interviews were conducted consisting of upperclassmen who have found Mason’s academic tools …show more content…
George Mason University’s graduation rate is at a high of 68.2% as well as having a retention rate of 87.0%(CollegeFactual) and half of the students with undergraduate degrees are employed part-time or full-time at the time of graduation(FKD). Similar to Longerbeam’s piece, this study has its flawless within the interview, not having enough diverse students in the interview portion of the evidence causing the study to not be as accurate. All four students interviewed were white females with no ethnic backgrounds and being one sophomore, one junior, and two senior undergraduate students. The strengths of this study are of the percent of Graduate students, retention rate, and post-graduate outcomes and the information the university’s website provided on the academic resources Mason has to