Graduation and Completion Resources

NACADA Resources:

• Graduating the 21st Century Student: Advising As If Their Lives (and Our Future) Depended On It, via NACADA Journal, 2012

Other Resources:

• ​High School Rigor and good advice: Setting up students to succeed (At a glance) via Center for Public Education
• 2011 College Completion data via Complete College America
• ACT student retention and graduate rates 2000-2012
• College Completion Challenge Fact Sheet via AACC
• College Completion Experiment Gets Degrees to "empty handed" Ex-Students via The Chronicle*
• Comparing college completion rates for students beginning in 2004 via The Chronicle*
• Fall 2010 Enrollment in postsecondary institutions (includes graduation rates for selection cohorts) via National Center for Educational Statistics (2012 report)
• For student success, stop debating and start improving via The Chronicle*
• From the Executive Director: Higher Education focuses on college completion - Academic advising at the center of university efforts
• Gates Foundation and completion via The Chronicle*
  • The Gates Effect
  • How Gates Shapes State Higher-Education Policy
• ' Graduation Rates Called a Poor Measure of College' Chronicle article.  Note: You will need your institution's Chronicle user name and password to access this article.
• Georgia colleges' graduation rates unsatisfactory via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Lumina Foundation Graduate Rates reports
• National Center for Educational Statistics 2011 graduation report
• Online classes and college completion via The Chronicle*
• A Stronger nation through higher education Lumina report of degree attainment by state
• Student Support (Re)defined via The RP Group
• Supersizing: Obama's higher education agenda ( Part 1 of 8 ) via The Chronicle*
• The uncounted ("retention" and community college students) viaThe Chronicle*
• US bachelor degree rate passes milestone via New York Times
• Where completion goes awry : The metrics for 'success' mask mounting problems with quality via AAC&U

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