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Community Building and Retention of First-Year Students - Research from the Field

Presenter(s): Jennifer Morrow, Jayne Richmond and Kandice Salomone, University of Rhode Island
Convener: Marybeth Hoffman, University of Rhode Island

For more than five years, the University of Rhode Island (URI) has been developing programs for first-year students that integrate traditional student-affairs functions with academics. The goal of URI's "Transition to College Project" is to ease the transition to college, improve student success, and increase retention of first-year students. The presentation's focus will be on how five years of evaluation research has impacted ongoing project planning and new program development.
This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-sixth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–36, in Boston, MA (USA), in July of 2001.

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