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A selection of interesting websites--articles, blogs, books, journals, professional organizations and conferences, resources and services, NC State Resources and UNC-GA Resources-- is below. You may contact Samara Burnette if you have an addition to this list or discover a broken link.

ARTICLES

• Access without Support is not Opportunity (2008, January/February). Cathy Engstrom and Vincent Tinto
• Figuring the ROI of Retention and Customer Service - CSF1(2007, July)
• Part II: Institutional Strategies: Strategies to Increase Student Success (2006, May). Watson Scott Swail, Ed.D.
• Institutional Strategies. A New Three-Part Series (2006, March).Watson Scott Swail, Ed.D.
• Noel-Levitz Papers and Reports (including student retention practices for recruitment and retention)
• Seven Guiding Questions for Student Retention (2006, January).Watson Scott Swail, Ed.D.
• The Art of Student Retention (2004, June). Watson Scott Swail, Ed.D.
• Retaining Minority Students in Higher Education (2003, November).Watson Scott Swail with Kenneth Redd and Laura Perna
• The Voluntary System of Accountability: Origins and Purposes An Interview with George Mehaffy and David Shulenberger (2008, July/August). Margaret A. Miller
• Yes, student retention is an admissions issue: here's why you should be looking at the admissions process as a foundation for retention - The Admissions Angle (2003, July )
• Minority Student Retention and Academic Achievement in Community Colleges. ERIC Digest. (2001)
• Understanding Black Student Culture and Black Student Retention (1996)
• Retention-Attrition in the Nineties. ERIC Digest. (1996)
• RETENTION 101-The Cost Of Student Attrition
• Vince Tinto's Site: The Assessment of Student Retention Programs

BLOGS

• AcademicMaps/Great Service Matters Blog

BOOKS (Books are linked to reviews.)

• Light, Richard J. Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, Paperback Edition. Harvard University Press, 2004. 242 pp. $24.95. ISBN-13: 9780674013599.
• Primary Research Group Publications. Higher Education Reports (including retention and assessment).
• Seidman, Alan (Ed.). College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success. Westport, CT: ACE/Praeger Publishers, 2005. 350 pp. Cloth: $49.95. ISBN 0-275-98193-2.

JOURNALS/MAGAZINESS

• Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
• Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice
• Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students In Transition (Must subscribe!)

• American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers's (AACRAO)
• StudentRetention.org: International Centre for Student Retention
• National ACademic ADvising Association (NACADA)
• Noel-Levitz
• Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA)

RESOURCES AND SERVICES

• AcademicMaps (Also Great Service Matters. The newsletter is especially helpful)
• ACT Educational Resources
  • ACT Report, surveyed 1000 instittuions
• Center for the Study of College Student Retention (CSCSR)
• Center for Transforming Student Services (CENTSS)
• Educational Needs Index (ENI)
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)
• National Report Card on Higher Education
• USA Funds: Solving the Retention Puzzle
• Voluntary System of Accountability

NC STATE RESOURCES

• Minority Retention (Diversity@NC State)
• Peer Comparative Data (UPA)
• Student Success Web Site

UNC-GA RESOURCES

• Policy 400.1.5 on Improving Retention and Graduation Rates (UNC Policy Manual)