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Seidman, A. Crossing the Finish Line: How to Retain and Graduate Your Students

In Crossing the Finish Line, Alan Seidman offers a guide for practitioners on student retention. Seidman (2018) opens his book with his self-coined motto, “Don’t make it harder than it really is!” (p. xvi), which effectively captures the tone of the work. In this short book, Seidman displays his significant knowledge of student retention and distills several important concepts into a highly accessible, common sense, and practical piece of writing. The book is organized into 17 brief, easy-to-follow chapters, each focusing on small and manageable concepts related to college student retention. Seidman uses “case in point” sections in each chapter to punctuate concepts with tangible, practical examples, and “of note” sections in some chapters to highlight key ideas, questions, and solutions. Complimenting his desire to construct an easyto-use book for practitioners, Seidman ends each chapter by explicitly restating the chapter’s main ideas.