Student success and its organizational and professional foundations and dynamics: what do universities and their professionals produce in the service of their audiences?
This thesis aims to understand the organizational and professional foundations and dynamics that underpin student success. Various political, economic, and social issues justify interest in this topic. In fact, student success, particularly in universities, has been at the center of public higher education policies promoted by successive governments over the last few decades, especially in areas dedicated to universities. Today's organizational landscape in universities includes a wide variety of manifestations of more or less assertive efforts to integrate the goal of student success into the organization. These developments are partially known, for example in the form of research and theses documenting the arrival of new professionals in the field of education. We will therefore seek to continue describing the new systems, actions, and even restructuring measures that are being put in place, but above all to identify the changes that are or are not taking place in the professional practices of those involved. Based on observation of situations, it is possible to integrate and articulate three major analytical dimensions: organization, professionals, and activity.
Keywords: Student success – Higher education pedagogy – Organization – Universities – Professions