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Leaning Into Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. I can go to conferences to build relationships with these students, creating a database, bringing it back, and sharing it with the department to do outreach,” Waller says.

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Digital Engagement – How Technology Enhances the Student Experience

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

Modern technologies consisting of databases connected to interfaces that deliver functionalities that improve our day to day lives. Of direct benefit to students are systems that aid with admissions applications, financial aid transactions, academic advising appointments, course progression/planning/scheduling, career development, etc.

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Consider Best Value Colleges

College Planners of America

The publishers conduct research and process information from current, reliable databases. Nevertheless, students and parents are advised to use rankings as only one of many sources of information. Full-Time Retention Rate Percent of full-time, first-time students enrolled the prior year that re-enroll the next year.

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Consider Best Value Colleges

College Planners of America

The publishers conduct research and process information from current, reliable databases. Nevertheless, students and parents are advised to use rankings as only one of many sources of information. Full-Time Retention Rate Percent of full-time, first-time students enrolled the prior year that re-enroll the next year.