The 86-page study gives detailed data on how 249 university leaders perceive the effectiveness of their university student retention effort and specific data is presented for their views on certain key retention-oriented student services such as tutoring, academic advising, financial aid and student personal counseling, as well as retention training for faculty, efforts to foster student inclusion and much more.  The study also includes the opinions of university leaders on how their universities foster retention of key student groups and demographics with specific data for their views of the retention effort for international students, and ethnic and racial minority students.

Survey participants give their opinion of what are the best features of their university’s retention efforts, and evaluate their own personal level of involvement in the retention effort.

Data in the reports is broken out by a broad range of criteria including: age, gender, academic title, and compensation level of respondent, and university ranking, public/private status and country of origin of the respondents affiliated institution. The sample is comprised of deans, provosts, chancellors, trustees, vice presidents, upper level administration directors, academic department heads, and distinguished professors.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

• Asked to assign a letter grade to the overall performance of their university’s student retention efforts, 34.5% of the respondents awarded an A, 46% B, 10.5% C, 1% D, and 0% F
• Respondents from Australian universities gave their schools poor marks for retention: 4% A, 44% B, 32% C and 8% D. Those in the UK gave high marks: 71% A, 14% B.
• Asked about how well their institution fosters inclusion and student participation, 5% respond poor, 23% acceptable, 34% good and 23% excellent. 
• 27% of Deans, Provosts, and Chancellors report that they are significantly or deeply involved in the student retention effort.

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Respondents were drawn from major research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.  A list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants is below:

Australian National University

Barnard College

Baylor College of Medicine

Brown University

Carleton University

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western Reserve University

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland

Curtin University

Drexel University

Emory University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Griffith University

Imperial College London

James Cook University

Lehigh University

Massey University

McGill University

Michigan State University

Monash University

Penn State College of Medicine

Penn State University

Pennsylvania State University

Princeton University

Queen Mary University of London

Rice University

Rutgers

Saint Louis University

Swinburne University of Technology

Teachers College, Columbia University

The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

University of Idaho

University College Dublin

University of Alberta

University of Birmingham

University of California, Davis

University of California, Riverside

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California--Berkeley

University of Chicago

University of Florida

University of Idaho

University of Maryland

University of Maryland--Baltimore

University of Maryland--College Park

University of Michigan

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

University of Michigan School of Information

University of Michigan-Flint

University of Missouri

University of Nottingham

University of Pittsburgh

University of South Florida

University of Tasmania

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

University of Toronto

University of Toronto Scarborough

University of Utah

University of Western Australia

VCUArts in Qatar

Virginia Commonwealth University

Washington State University

Washington University

Washington University in St. Louis

Yale University