Strategies for Enhancing Commuter Student Success

Abstract

This article describes how to use what we know about commuter students to design and implement strategies that enhance their retention. It includes a discussion of the extraordinary diversity of the commuter student population and their common needs and concerns and offers several theoretical frameworks that have proven to be useful in understanding commuter students, institutional environments, and the nature of interactions between them. It concludes by presenting an organizing model together with specific strategies that promotes commuter student success.