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First-Year Seminars Increase Persistence and Retention: A Summary of the Evidence from How College Affects Students by Kathleen Goodman, doctoral student and research assistant, Center for Research on Undergraduate Education, and Ernest T. Pascarella, Mary Louise Petersen Professor of Higher Education and co director, Center for Research on Undergraduate Education, both of the University of Iowa
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Academic-Support Strategies for Promoting Student Retention & Achievement During The First-Year of College by Joe Cuseo, Director of Freshman Seminar, Marymount College in Palos Verdes, California
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The Importance of Faculty-Student Contact Outside the Classroom by Joe Cuseo, Director of Freshman Seminar, Marymount College in Palos Verdes, California
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Assessment Of The First-Year Seminar: Research-Based Guidelines For Course & Program Evaluation by Joe Cuseo, Director of Freshman Seminar, Marymount College in Palos Verdes, California
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The “BIG PICTURE”: Key Causes of Student Attrition & Key Components of a Comprehensive Student Retention Plan by Joe Cuseo, Director of Freshman Seminar, Marymount College in Palos Verdes, California
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What Works in Student Retention? Four-Year Public Colleges by Wesley R. Habley & Randy McClanahan, 2004 ACT Inc.: http://www.act.org/path/postsec/droptables/
pdf/FourYearPublic.pdf
Review of Retention Literature, Appendix 1, What Works in Student Retention? by Randy McClanhan, 2004 ACT, Inc.: http://www.act.org/path/postsec/droptables/
pdf/Appendix1.pdf
Bibliography, Appendix 2 What Works In Student Retention?, 2004 ACT, Inc:
http://www.act.org/path/postsec/droptables/
pdf/Appendix2.pdf
The Role Of Academic And Non-Academic Factors In Improving College Retention, Act Policy Report by Veronica A. Lotkowski, Steven B. Robbins, Richard J. Noeth, 2004 Act, Inc.:
http://www.act.org/path/policy/
pdf/college_retention.pdf
College Results Online by the Education Trust:
http://www.collegeresults.org
The American Freshman - National Norms for 2006, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/norms06.php
Educational Needs Index, Calculations for Kentucky:
http://www.educationalneedsindex.com/
kentucky-education.php
Demography is not Destiny: Increasing the Graduation Rates of Low-Income Students at Large Public Universities by Jennifer Engle and Colleen O’Brien, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education:
http://www.coenet.us/files/
files-demography_is_not_destiny.pdf
Student Success in College: Assessing the Conditions for Educational Effectiveness by George D. Kuh, Jillian Kinzie, John H. Schuh, Elizabeth J. Whitt,
January 19, 2006:
http://www.sc.edu/fye/resources/assessment/
essays/Kuh-1.19.06.html
Freshman Attitudes: 2008 National Research Study by Noel Levitz:
https://www.noellevitz.com/NR/rdonlyres/FC75324B-
6601-414B-9165-B5F28E790C01/0/2008Report.pdf
The Critical Thinking Community:
http://www.criticalthinking.org/
2007 Update, Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts by Peter A. Facione:
http://www.insightassessment.com/
pdf_files/what&why2006.pdf
Measuring Up 2006, Kentucky Report Card:
http://measuringup.highereducation.org/_docs/
2006/statereports/KY06.pdf
Dr. Alan Seidman's retention formula for student success, slideshow:
http://www.cscsr.org/docs/
RetentionFormulaUpdateForWeb2006.pdf
SREB Fact Book on Higher Education, Kentucky Report, 2007:
http://www.sreb.org/main/EdData/FactBook/
2007StateReports/Kentucky07.pdf