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August, 2008

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Getting Your Share of the Adult Degree Completion Market
There’s a huge market for online degree programs out there, one whose surface has just been scratched. It’s the “adult degree-completion market,” and there are tens of millions of people in it all across the country. How can your institution tap into this market?

Q&A: Community College Student Success Centers
Maximizing your resources early in your relationship with a new student will help you retain them later, says Dr. Craig Justice, vice president of instruction at Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California. Dr. Justice advocates using a student success center that focuses the institution’s resources on students from the start of their first year. Recruitment and Retention asked him a few questions about the topic.

Award-Winning Admissions Microsite Remains a Work in Progress
By Laura Putre
In 2001, the admissions department at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, launched Inside L&C, a password-protected microsite targeted toward admitted students. The site provides an informal environment for prospective students to get acquainted with their peers, keep tabs on important enrollment dates, and get insider information on everything from dorm amenities to the vegan offerings in the cafeteria. And, hopefully, decide to enroll at Lewis and Clark.

Handling Student Misconduct Complaints
What should an administrator do if a staff or faculty member presents a complaint of student misconduct? Dr. Gerald Amada, author of Coping with the Disruptive College Student: A Practical Model, answers the questions that administrators have most frequently asked him about this subject.

Donors and Preferential Admissions Treatment
By Dennis Black
The Daily Bruin made a startling claim: relatives of major donors had been given preferential treatment in professional school admissions. Were deals really made to admit an applicant to school, based on donations to the school?

Institutional Research: Building a Data-Driven Culture
By Paul R. Brown and Santanu Bandyopadhyay
Under tight budgetary conditions, small institutions often find it difficult to justify establishing an institutional research department. But Zane State College's investment in an IR department has more than paid off.

Editor's Note
We'd like to hear from you regarding the topics Recruitment and Retention should tackle in the upcoming academic year.