Retention

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.

New research from California State University, Fullerton, found students who participated in a first-year experience course were more likely to persist to their second year and achieved higher grades, on average.

A staff member at Stockton University developed a transfer-only general studies course, creating a space for engagement and camaraderie between transfer students with proven outcomes on retention and graduation.