Student Retention/Attrition Resources*

• Advising and Retention articles and quotes
  • Advising and Retention NACADA Clearinghouse Critical Issue Overview by Charlie Nutt
  • Academic Advisement and Student Retention: Empirical Connections & Systemic Interventions by Joe Cuseo
  • African-American Student Organizations as Agents of Social Integration
  • African-American Student Retention Involves Unique Challenges
  • The College Environment: Factors Influencing Student Transition and Their Impact on Academic Advising
  • Promoting Student Retention: Lessons Learned from the United States text of a Vincent Tinto presentation
  • Promoting Student Success: What Advisors Can Do via NSSE
  • Retention quotes
  • Taking Student Retention Seriously article by Vincent Tinto via Maricopa Community College
  • Tracking Degree Eligibility Boosts Graduation Rate" from Community College Times
  • Vocational-Technical College Student Persistence Models from the Journal of Vocational Education Research

 

• Retention Reports

• ACE Access & Persistence: Findings from 10 years of longitudinal research on students
• ACT
  • graduation
  • retention
  • dropout reports
  • 1983-2005 summary tables
• Answers in the Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and Bachelor's Degree Attainment.  Longitudinal study by Clifford Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, U.S. Department of Education. 
• Are College Students Satisfied: A National Analysis of Changing Expectations via Noel-Levitz
• Community College attrition: Short-term Enrollment in Post-Secondary Education, a National Center for Education Statistics report
• What Community College Management Practices Are Effective in Promoting Student Success? A Study of High- and Low-Impact Institutions
• Connecting Enrollment and Fiscal Management (report on retention vs. recruitment)
• CSRDE Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange
• Foster children.  Low Levels of College Access and Persistence for Foster Youth via NASFAA.org
• Perceptions of Academic Advising and Freshman Student Retention Dissertation examining student perceptions of academic advising and the relationship to student persistence by Kathleen Shea Smith
• Early Leaver Survey Report produced by Grant MacEwan College
• The Educational Trust College Results Online graduation and retention comparisons
• Exploring Different Dimensions of Student Engagement : 2005 annual survey results via NSSE
• "Most College-Bound Students Underprepared, Studies Say" via Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education
• National Center for Education Statistics retention of first-time postsecondary students
• National Center for Postsecondary Improvement with variety of searchable reports
• Patrick Henry Community College Model for Analyzing Retention Over Time
• Pell Institute student retention and graduation report
• Retention-Attrition in the Nineties from the ERIC Clearinghouse
• The Role of Academic and Non-Academic Factors in Improving College Retention by ACT
• Retention articles via the journal Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation, and Development
• What works in student retention? ACT reports by institutional type

 

• Retention related links. Note: listing of these commercial sites does not imply NACADA endorsement .
  • Intrusive Advising and Developmental Advising Web links
• AdvisorTrac management software for advisement and counseling retention
• An Attention-getting Attrition Formula: The Cost of Attrition. Power Point by Rich Robbins
• Center for the Study of College Student Retention
  • Reference definitions
  • Reference bibiography
  • Retention slide presentation
• College Drop Out Boom via the NY Times
• Collegeways provides retention resources to individuals and educational institutions
• College Success Factor Index
• Community College retention resources via the NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources
• Early Alert Systems
• Educational Communities and Student Success in the First Year of University speech by Vincent Tinto
• 'Engagement’ and the Underprepared via Inside Higher Ed
• Exit Surveys
• Five Weird Ways to College Success Review of the book College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success
• "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.
• Individual Learning Plan via Sinclair Community College
• Journal of Student Retention
• National Survey of Student Engagement
• Noel-Levitz Retention information
  • Database of award-winning retention programs
  • Retention Tools
• Persistence and Attainment of 2003-04 Beginning Postsecondary Students: After Three Years NCES report
• A Practical Guide to Enrollment and Retention Management in Higher Education by Marguerite J. Dennis. (ISBN 0-89789-591-6) Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 
• Quotes: Academic Advising and Retention
• Retention bibliographies
  • Bibliography by ACT
  • Literature review by ACT
  • Retention Reference bibliography via the Center for the Study of College Student Retention
  • Student Retention via Arkansas Tech University (includes minority student retention)
  • Retention research 1996 - 1999 via Clearinghouse
  • Retention research 1991 - 1995 via Clearinghouse
• Recruitment & Retention in Higher Education newsletter
• Student Retention bibliography via Arkansas Tech University (includes minority student retention)
• Student Success and the Construction of Inclusive Educational Communities by Vincent Tinto
• Understanding Student Retention via Cal Poly Pomona

*Listing of these commercial sites does not imply NACADA endorsement