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October 2005

Whole-Campus Effort Boosts Persistence Rates

Everybody’s doing his or her part to improve student retention at Utah State University. Even the president is making sacrifices: Ongoing remodeling will soon turn the basement of his on-campus home into a student recreation and gathering space. The campuswide effort has paid off. Over the past three years, retention rates have increased from 66 percent to 75 percent. The retention of high-ability students improved from 80 percent to 96 percent during the same time.


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