Recent Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Generation Graduate Students and Potential Attrition Risks in their Profiles. Journal of Continuing Higher Education. Vol. 56, No. 3, pp 11-25. (CP)
Lifton, D., Cohen, A. & Schlesinger, W. (2007). Utilizing First Year Curricula Linkage to Improve In-Major Persistence to Graduation: Results from a Four-Year Longitudinal Study, Fall 2000-Spring 2004. Journal of College Student Retention: Research Theory & Practice, 9 (1), 113-125. (CP)
Lifton, D., Seay, Sandra, McCarly, Nancy, Olive-Taylor, R., Seeger, R. Bigbee, Dalton. (2006). Correlating Hardiness with Graduation Persistence. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 10 (3), 277-282. (CP)
(Monograph) Lifton, D., Cohen, A. & Schlesinger, W. (2005) Career Development in First-Year Business Students: Connecting Student 2005 Success Skills to Business Success Skills. Chapter 10 in Gore, P. (ed.), Facilitating the Career Development of Students in Transition - Monograph No. 43. Columbia: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition. pp. 151 – 165. (CP)
(Monograph) Lifton, D., Cohen, A. & Schlesinger, W. (2005) Ithaca College in Tobolowsky, Barbara F., Cox, Bradley E., Wagner, Mary T., (eds.) Exploring the Evidence, Volume III: Reporting Research on First-Year Seminars - Monograph No. 42. Columbia: National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition. pp. 71-73. (CP)
Lifton, D., Cohen, A. & Schlesinger, W. (2004, Spring). Improving In-Major Retention and Grade Point Average Through First Year Curricula Linkage: Results from a Business School Longitudinal Study. Journal of the Academy of Business Education, 5, 21-27. (CP)
Lifton, D. et al. Measuring Undergraduate Hardiness as an Indicator of Persistence to Graduation within Four Years in Duranczyk, I.M., Higbee, J.L., Lundell, D.B. (eds.),Best Practices for Access and Retention in Higher Education. MN: Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, General College, University of Minnesota, pp. 103-113. (CP)
"Improving In-Major Retention and Grade Point Average Through First Year Curricula Linkage: Results from a Business School Longitudinal Study," with Schlesinger, W. and Cohen, A., Journal of the Academy of Business Education, 5:21-27 (2004).
"Creating a First-Year Seminar in Business," co-authored with W. Schlesinger and A. Cohen, Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2001.
"Can Student Hardiness Serve as an Indicator of Likely Persistence to Graduation? Baseline Results from a Longitudinal Study," co-authored with S. Seay and A. Bushkow, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Summer Issue, pp. 73-81 (2000).
Academic Presentations
Lifton, D. et al. 2006. “Black Undergraduate Enrollment Choices and Their Persistence to Timely Graduation: Results from a Four-Year Longitudinal Study at a Research-I University and its HBCU Neighbor,” presented at the 13th (CP)
Conference Proceedings
"Improving In-Major Persistence to Graduation Year Through First-Year Curricula Linkage: Results from a Business School Longitudinal Study," Proceedings of the Society for Advancement of Management 2005 International Business Conference. Corpus Christi, Texas A&M University (forthcoming).
"Correlating First-Year Student "Hardiness" with Persistence to Graduation within Four Years: Results from a Five-Campus Longitudinal Study," Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting, Track Section of Management, American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, San Bernardino (forthcoming).
Lifton, D. & Macy, G. (2009). Faculty Job Sharing as a Baby-Boomer Alternative to Retirement: A Case Study Example. Proceedings of the American Society of Business & Behavioral Sciences 16th Annual Conference, Las Vegas, February 18-22. CD Rom. (CP)
Lifton, D., Cohen, A., Schlesinger, W.(2007). Piloting a comprehensive, four-year information literacy integration plan for undergraduate business majors: can it serve as a model for others in disciplines? in Zhu & Mondal, (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting Track Section of Management, San Bernadino: American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, cd-rom, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1491-1494. (CP)
Lifton, D., Cohen, A., Schlesinger, W. (2005). Improving in-major persistence to graduation year through first year curricula linkage: Results from a business school longitudinal study, in Abdelsamad, M. & E. Myers (eds), Proceedings of the Society for Advancement of Management 2005 International Business Conference. Corpus Christi: Texas A&M University, pp. 503-511. (CP)
"Improving Business Major Retention Through First Year Curricula Linnkage: Does it Last to Junior Year?" with Cohen, A. and Schlesinger, W., Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting, Track Section of Management, 10(1):1007-1013, American Society of Business & Behavioral Sciences, San Bernardino (2003).
Lifton, D. et al. (2005) Correlating first-year student “hardiness” with persistence to graduation within four years: Results from a 5-campus longitudinal study, in Chakprani & Mondal, (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting Track Section of Management, San Bernadino: American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, cd-rom, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1051-1063. (CP)
"Assessing Student Outcomes When First-Year Curricula is Linked: Baseline Results from a Longitudinal Study on Retention," co-authored with A. Cohen and W. Schlesinger, Proceedings of the International Conference on First-Year Experience, Columbia: The Freshman Year Experience (2001).
"Retaining Undergraduate Business Students: A New Approach to the Crucial First Semester," co-authored with A. Cohen and W. Schlesinger, Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, Villanova University: Academy of Business Education, www.abe.villanova.edu/proc2000/n104.pdf (2000).
"Exploring the Linkage on International Campuses of First-Year Student Hardiness with Persistence to Sophomore," co-authored with S. Seay and A. Bushkow, Proceedings of the International Conference on the First-Year Experience, Columbia: The Freshman Year Experience, p. 34 (2000).