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RSF, 2021

The coeditors thank Suzanne Nichols and the three referees for their valuable comments and suggestions on this introduction. Extensive editorial and research assistance were provided by Angela Rose Myers, Yufeng Lai, Shuyi Deng, and Nora Jury-Last. The coeditors also acknowledge and thank Stephen Menendian for his help and support. He contributed to the concepts, the research, and the edits. His work is appreciated and improved the quality of the volume.

Creating Conditions for Student Success: Social justice perspectives from a South African university, 2021

BACKGROUND TO AND RATIONALE FOR THE PUBLICATION Student success remains one of the intractable challenges for higher education internationally (Kuh, Kinzie, Buckley, Bridges & Hayek 2011; Tinto & Pusser 2006), and even more so in South Africa as universities are struggling with balancing the imperatives of widening access with those of academic success of students (Badat 2010; Boughey 2002; Lewin & Mawoyo 2014; Scott, Yeld & Hendry 2007). At many institutions worldwide various initiatives have been launched to support students and to enhance student success (Kuh et al. 2011; Tinto 2012). This is also true of Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa which has invested in several structures, systems and interventions to widen access and enable student success. Two problems remain. Firstly, the effectiveness of these initiatives and the extent to which they actually contribute to student success have not been ascertained through scientific study. Secondly, from a systems perspective, a holistic view of these initia tives is lacking, and at best, piecemeal, anecdotal evidence exists of their value or contribution. The book aims to contribute towards addressing both these gaps by bringing together 15 studies that have been done on different ways that conditions for student success are being created at SU. All of the studies, with one exception (Chapter 13 by Schreiber), were done by master's and doctoral students of the Faculty of Education at SU. 1 All of the authors are staff or alumni of the institution, hence this volume presents 'insider' research on a single institution in the form of case studies. Being both 'insiders' and researchers, the authors wrote from a solid knowledge base of practice, theory and research. 1 The full theses and dissertations of these studies are available on SUNScholar, the SU repository of doctoral dissertations and master's theses.