Report pans most campus-based efforts to increase student retention

A new report by the Project on Academic Success takes an unvarnished look at the success of campus-based programs to increase student retention and graduation. The Project is led by Don Hossler, a dean and professor of educational leadership at the University of Indiana, whose overview appears online at the College Board's College Connection site.

Hossler says that "the Project on Academic Success at Indiana University School of Education ... found that most campus-based programmatic efforts to increase student persistence are poorly planned, inadequately staffed, underfunded and — unsurprisingly — ineffective. Similarly, other studies have found that many community college students either never enroll in or do not complete remedial education courses and — again, unsurprisingly — that most remedial students who are admitted never graduate."

The full report is available here.