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| 2 | Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind | Journal of Higher Education | 1988 | 769 |
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| 10 | Classrooms as Communities: Exploring the Educational Character of Student Persistence | Journal of Higher Education | 1997 | 406 |
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| 12 | Predicting Freshman Persistence and Voluntary Dropout Decisions from a Theoretical Model | Journal of Higher Education | 1980 | 372 |
| 13 | The Role of the Department and Discipline in Doctoral Student Attrition: Lessons from Four Departments | Journal of Higher Education | 2005 | 367 |
| 14 | Unmasking the Effects of Student Engagement on First-Year College Grades and Persistence | Journal of Higher Education | 2008 | 367 |
| 15 | Predicting Freshman Persistence and Voluntary Dropout Decisions from a Theoretical Model | Journal of Higher Education | 1980 | 356 |
| 16 | Implementing Service Learning in Higher Education | Journal of Higher Education | 1996 | 338 |
| 17 | Implementing Service Learning in Higher Education | Journal of Higher Education | 1996 | 331 |
| 18 | College Persistence | Journal of Higher Education | 1993 | 324 |
| 19 | First-Generation College Students: Additional Evidence on College Experiences and Outcomes | Journal of Higher Education | 2004 | 314 |
| 20 | The Relationship between Parental Involvement as Social Capital and College Enrollment: An Examination of Racial/Ethnic Group Differences | Journal of Higher Education | 2005 | 300 |
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| 24 | Academic Dishonesty: Honor Codes and Other Contextual Influences | Journal of Higher Education | 1993 | 264 |
| 25 | The Relationship between Parental Involvement as Social Capital and College Enrollment: An Examination of Racial/Ethnic Group Differences | Journal of Higher Education | 2005 | 264 |
| 26 | Student Price Response in Higher Education | Journal of Higher Education | 1997 | 259 |
| 27 | Social Class and College Costs: Examining the Financial Nexus Between College Choice and Persistence | Journal of Higher Education | 2002 | 251 |
| 28 | Mission Statements: A Thematic Analysis of Rhetoric Across Institutional Type | Journal of Higher Education | 2006 | 246 |
| 29 | Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines. | Journal of Higher Education | 1991 | 245 |
| 30 | The other Curriculum | Journal of Higher Education | 1995 | 244 |
| 31 | Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? | Journal of Higher Education | 2001 | 242 |
| 32 | Limits of Theory and Practice in Student Attrition | Journal of Higher Education | 1982 | 239 |
| 33 | Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide. | Journal of Higher Education | 1993 | 232 |
| 34 | Alumni Perceptions Used to Assess Undergraduate Research Experience | Journal of Higher Education | 2003 | 232 |
| 35 | The Role of Perceptions of Prejudice and Discrimination on the Adjustment of Minority Students to College | Journal of Higher Education | 1996 | 228 |
| 36 | The Other Curriculum: Out-of-Class Experiences Associated with Student Learning and Personal Development | Journal of Higher Education | 1995 | 226 |
| 37 | Differences in the Decision to Attend College among African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites | Journal of Higher Education | 2000 | 226 |
| 38 | Women of Color in Academe: Living with Multiple Marginality | Journal of Higher Education | 2002 | 225 |
| 39 | Stages of Student Departure: Reflections on the Longitudinal Character of Student Leaving | Journal of Higher Education | 1988 | 219 |
| 40 | The Campus Racial Climate | Journal of Higher Education | 1992 | 208 |
| 41 | Organizational Culture in Higher Education | Journal of Higher Education | 1988 | 205 |
| 42 | Women of Color in Academe | Journal of Higher Education | 2002 | 204 |
| 43 | The Relation Between Research Productivity and Teaching Effectiveness: Complementary, Antagonistic, or Independent Constructs? | Journal of Higher Education | 2002 | 202 |
| 44 | The Convergence between Two Theories of College Persistence | Journal of Higher Education | 1992 | 198 |
| 45 | The Influence of Active Learning on the College Student Departure Process | Journal of Higher Education | 2000 | 196 |
| 46 | The Role of Perceptions of Prejudice and Discrimination on the Adjustment of Minority Students to College | Journal of Higher Education | 1996 | 195 |
| 47 | New Evidence on College Remediation | Journal of Higher Education | 2006 | 194 |
| 48 | Social Class and College Costs | Journal of Higher Education | 2002 | 193 |
| 49 | Campus Racial Climate and the Adjustment of Students to College: A Comparison between White Students and African-American Students | Journal of Higher Education | 1999 | 192 |
| 50 | Settling into Campus Life: Differences by Race/Ethnicity in College Involvement and Outcomes | Journal of Higher Education | 2007 | 191 |