Public Agenda's recent report "With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them" is subtitled "Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College." It's essential reading for anyone interested in student retention. Citing an average 40% six...

The annual Commission on Colleges meeting was in Atlanta this year, and I drove down from Charlotte with a colleague under blue skies. Drove back in the rain. In between, the days and nights were packed. I had optimistically taken along one book on...

I haven't been blogging here much because I've been spending time on a research project. It requires a lot of programming and machine-time to actually run the programs. I have it down to a science now, so at this point it's mostly tweaking parameters...

A Chronicle article "Report Highlights Characteristics of Colleges With High Transfer-Success Rates" cites a new publication from The Pell Institute about successful transfer programs. The new report hasn't shown up on that organization's publications...

Two articles in the Chronicle at the top of the most viewed list are interesting to contrast. First is "Turnaround President Makes the Most of His College’s Small Size" about G. T. Smith as President of David & Elkins College:n higher education, Mr....