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This is just a really good background piece (Karen West, Today's Campus) on the current status, and many of the current issues, regarding student retention - as the US gears up to graduate many more students by 2020. Rather than our usual quotation of a significant piece of the writing, we felt that a list of headers in the document would be more useful to you. Here they are:

• Everything has changes but the results
• College demographics worth noting
• Hopeful signs upstream
• Dummy down or smarten up?
• Retention Solution - Private College
• Carroll's Ten Retention Factors
• Retention Solutions - Public University
• Retention Solutions - Community College
• Retention measurement: complicated, confusing and essential
• Enter the government and a moving target
• Community colleges are a special case