Retention

A new brief by the Institute for College Access and Success highlights the unique challenges students from rural communities can face in postsecondary degree attainment and some ways colleges and universities can bridge the gap.

To promote successful transfer between community colleges and four-year universities, institutional partnerships are addressing barriers and providing more streamlined methods.

This academic year, 20 students at the University of Chicago began receiving institutional support and additional scholarship money to support their academic pursuits in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

A professor provides six ways instructors can build relationships with their students to promote engagement and persistence.

Leaders at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College rally around the student support program CState Accelerate to improve student success measures and increase funding from donors.

As higher education practitioners continue to look at student success holistically, here are two dozen recent data points to consider for the upcoming calendar year.

Florida State University opened the Center for Academic Guidance this year, using data to identify struggling students and providing them with support resources to improve retention and persistence.

A new report from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice finds students who received emergency pandemic grant funding were more likely to remain enrolled, compared to their peers.