February 6, 2009
How to Help Students Stay and Succeed
To the Editor:
In "Diagnosing Why Some Students Don't Succeed" (The Chronicle, December 12, 2008), George Kuh correctly pointed out the importance of the analysis of information to institutional efforts to address student attrition from college. But knowing only why students depart often leads to piecemeal actions that leave untouched the conditions on campus that are the roots of student attrition. Reshaping these conditions is ultimately the source of institutional improvements in
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