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Details how institutional research, data collection can lead to programmatic changes that promote student success. Collecting data on course failure rates allowed administration and faculty to look critically at the effectiveness of several instructional delivery formats and introduce academic policies that support student retention.

Study by Eric Bettinger and Rachel Baker from Stanford University showing the impact of personalized, executive style coaching to increase college retention.

2010 Philadelphia Student Retention Survey. Report finding that Philadelphia is able to retain non-native college graduates

Story on proposals to fund higher education in West VA through a performance-based funding model.

Summarizes states' efforts to provide information on success of K-12 students after high school, such as postsecondary enrollment, remediation, persistence and degree completion. (Data Quality Campaign, December 2011)

Overview of research done by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University outlining the challenges to significantly increasing degree completion among underrepresented populations. Need for better data, program evaluation and financial aid are the key.

Report from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy outlining the challenges to increase college completion rates in states. The report calls for improved financial aid, better data, improved program evaluation and innovative strategies to serve at-risk populations.

The Preventing Loss, Creating Momentum Framework that is the heart of the Completion By Design initiative that is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Story on Western Governor's University coaching/mentoring program and its results in moving students toward completion.