Related topics:

• National retention, attrition, and completion reports
• Retention and attrition resources

Articles from Periodicals and Journals:

2018

• Advising Equals Engaged Students, Inside Higher Ed
• ​Impacting Student Learning, Persistence, Retention and Completion, NACADA Summer Institute Presentation

2017

• The First Year of Developing a Retention Program, by Nathanial Garrod, Academic Advising Today

2016

• Incomplete: The Quality Crisis at America's Private, Non-Profit Colleges, via third way

2015

2014

• Academic advising: The Key to increasing retention among students with anxiety disorders, via Academic Advising Today
• Unplanned pregnancy prevention: An academic advising curriculum to enhance student retention and college completion, via Academic Advising Today

2013

• Assessing undeserved students' engagement in high-impact practices, via Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Research to improve retention, via Inside Higher Ed
• With an eye toward retention, colleges amp up advising, via The Chronicle 

2012

• Coaching college freshmen so they don't drop out, via Bloomberg Businessweek
• College grad rates are bad data, via The Washington Post
• For student success, stop debating and start improving, via The Chronicle of Higher Education 
• Multi-year study of community college practices asks: What helps students graduate? via The Chronicle of Higher Education 
• US bachelor degree rate passes milestone, via New York Times
• Where completion goes awry: The metrics for 'success' mask mounting problems with quality, via Association of American Colleges and Universities
• The uncounted (retention and community college students), via The Chronicle of Higher Education 

2011

• The case of the vanishing students, via The Chronicle of Higher Education +
• Ending the late option (closing late registration to promote retention), via Inside Higher Education 
• Higher education confronts its own achievement gap, via Governing the states and localities
• Higher education leaders must boost college completion efforts, U.S. Education Department's Kanter says, via Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• Just Showing Up: Educators focus on attendence to help students succeed, via The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Online classes and college completion, via The Chronicle of Higher Education 
• The role of financial aid in retention, via University Business
• Stanford study shows college student coaching improves retention and graduation rates, via Stanford Graduate School of Education
• Strong and steady wins the retention race, via Campus Technology
• Study identifies for quitting college, via Mischigan State University News
• Tackling the retention challenge: Defining and delivering a unique student experience, via Academic Impressions
• Tying recruitment to retention: An advisor's role in working with underrepresented populations via Academic Advising Today
• University of California-Riverside devises a successful Latino graduation strategy, via Hispanic Outlook 
• What spurs students to stay in college and learn? Good teaching practices and diversity, via The Chronicle +

2010

• Advising & student persistence: The pressure rises…. via Academic Advising Today
• Fast Gainers: 4 Ways That Colleges Have Raised Graduation Rates, via The Chronicle of Higher Education +
• Stand up and become the key advocate for student success and academic advising on campus and Around the Globe via Academic Advising Today
• Students find it's tough to graduate in four years, via National Public Radio

Prior to 2009:

• Academic advising in the new global century: Supporting student engagement and learning outcomes achievement, via Association of American Colleges and Universities
• College Drop Out Boom, via The NY Times
• 'Engagement’ and the Underprepared, via Inside Higher Ed
• Enhancing Students' College Experience with Specific Advising Suggestions, via Academic Advising Today
• Graduation rates called a poor measure of college, via The Chronicle of Higher Education 
• Helping students finish the 4-year run, via The Chronicle of Higher Education

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