Retention Resources

• ACT offers a selection of reports that highlight information on successful practices in college student retention based on ACT's national survey that included more than 1,000 colleges.
• The National Academic Advising Association has a clearinghouse for student retention resources.
• The Educational Policy Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Virginia Beach, Va., dedicated to the study of issues related to the expansion of quality educational opportunities.
• College Board study on student retention, from Indiana University’s Project on Academic Success.
• A compilation of case studies of recipients of Noel Levitz’s Retention Excellence Awards.
• The Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education provides a brief summary of the original Chickering and Gamson article on the seven principles (1987), followed by a list of ways in which one might implement these principles in the college classroom.
• Professor Tinto is Distinguished University Professor at Syracuse University and until recently Chair of the Higher Education Program. He has carried out research and has written extensively on higher education, particularly on student success and the impact of learning communities on student growth and attainment. His most recent book, Leaving College, published by the University of Chicago Press, lays out a theory and policy perspective on student success that is considered the benchmark by which work on these issues are judged.
  • Overview of the importance of moving beyond access to providing realistic opportunities for earning a college degree.
  • Keynote address presented at the 36th Annual Institute for Chief Academic Officers
  • Paper prepared for the Pell Institute for the study of Opportunity in Higher Education