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Enrollment report with year to year statistics.

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Reviews changes in attitudes, beliefs, self-concept, behaviors, academic achievement, the career path, and college satisfaction.

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Shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.

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Emphasizes the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others.

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Bean, J. P. (2005). Nine themes of college student retention. In A. Seidman (Ed.), College student retention: Formula for student success (pp. 215-243). Westport, CT: American Council on Education and Praeger Publishers.
Framing student retention theoretically, individually, politically or institutionally.

Bean, J. P. & Metzner, B. S., (1985). A conceptual model of nontraditional undergraduate student attrition. Review of Educational Research, 55(4), 485-540.
Mixed method design identfying predictors of academic success of adult working students.

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Synthesizing twenty more years of empirical research and over 2,600 studies, distilling what is known about how students change and benefit as a consequence of attending college.

Pascarella, E. T. & Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How college affects students: A third decade of research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Seidman, A. (2005). College student retention: Formula for student success. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers.
This book offers a formula for student success intended to assist colleges and universities in retaining and graduating students.

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Understanding student departure from higher education.

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