Mahsood Shah is Professor and Dean of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. In this role, he provides overall leadership and management of the campus.Sally Kift is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and elected President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows. From 2012 to 2017, she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University, Australia.Liz Thomas is Professor of higher education at Edge Hill University, UK and has more than twenty years’ experience undertaking and managing research about widening participation, student engagement, belonging, retention and success, and institutional approaches to improving the student experience and outcomes.

• Chapter 1: Student retention and success in higher education.- Chapter 2: Why does student retention and success matter?.- Chapter 3: Student retention: The need for institutional change.- Chapter 4: Student engagement: Key to retaining students.- Chapter 5: Faculty engagement with Learning Analytics: Advancing a student success culture in higher education.- Chapter 6: Institutional leadership efforts driving student retention and success: A case study of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- Chapter 7: Engaging staff in improving retention and success.- Chapter 8: Listening for retention: Enabling student success through partnering with the student voice.- Chapter 9: Improving student engagement, retention and success in online learning.- Chapter 10: Fostering equitable access to employability development through an institution-wide, in-curricular strategy.- Chapter 11: Designing assessment and feedback to improve student learning and student success.- Chapter 12: Re-designing curriculum to enhance first-year student success: A case study.- Chapter 13: The role of professional integration in higher education IT studies.- Chapter 14: Retention and success in the midst of a pandemic.

Mahsood Shah is Professor and Dean of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. In this role, he provides overall leadership and management of the campus.Sally Kift is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and elected President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows. From 2012 to 2017, she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University, Australia.Liz Thomas is Professor of higher education at Edge Hill University, UK and has more than twenty years’ experience undertaking and managing research about widening participation, student engagement, belonging, retention and success, and institutional approaches to improving the student experience and outcomes.

• Chapter 1: Student retention and success in higher education.- Chapter 2: Why does student retention and success matter?.- Chapter 3: Student retention: The need for institutional change.- Chapter 4: Student engagement: Key to retaining students.- Chapter 5: Faculty engagement with Learning Analytics: Advancing a student success culture in higher education.- Chapter 6: Institutional leadership efforts driving student retention and success: A case study of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- Chapter 7: Engaging staff in improving retention and success.- Chapter 8: Listening for retention: Enabling student success through partnering with the student voice.- Chapter 9: Improving student engagement, retention and success in online learning.- Chapter 10: Fostering equitable access to employability development through an institution-wide, in-curricular strategy.- Chapter 11: Designing assessment and feedback to improve student learning and student success.- Chapter 12: Re-designing curriculum to enhance first-year student success: A case study.- Chapter 13: The role of professional integration in higher education IT studies.- Chapter 14: Retention and success in the midst of a pandemic.

Mahsood Shah is Professor and Dean of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. In this role, he provides overall leadership and management of the campus.Sally Kift is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and elected President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows. From 2012 to 2017, she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University, Australia.Liz Thomas is Professor of higher education at Edge Hill University, UK and has more than twenty years’ experience undertaking and managing research about widening participation, student engagement, belonging, retention and success, and institutional approaches to improving the student experience and outcomes.

• Chapter 1: Student retention and success in higher education.- Chapter 2: Why does student retention and success matter?.- Chapter 3: Student retention: The need for institutional change.- Chapter 4: Student engagement: Key to retaining students.- Chapter 5: Faculty engagement with Learning Analytics: Advancing a student success culture in higher education.- Chapter 6: Institutional leadership efforts driving student retention and success: A case study of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- Chapter 7: Engaging staff in improving retention and success.- Chapter 8: Listening for retention: Enabling student success through partnering with the student voice.- Chapter 9: Improving student engagement, retention and success in online learning.- Chapter 10: Fostering equitable access to employability development through an institution-wide, in-curricular strategy.- Chapter 11: Designing assessment and feedback to improve student learning and student success.- Chapter 12: Re-designing curriculum to enhance first-year student success: A case study.- Chapter 13: The role of professional integration in higher education IT studies.- Chapter 14: Retention and success in the midst of a pandemic.