The Fostering of Social Integration and Retention through Institutional Practice

This article presents institutional practices that spring from empirically grounded forces that influence social integration and retention. We present 20 recommendations for implementation by eight domains of institutional practice: academic advising, administrative policies and practices, enrollment management, faculty development, faculty reward system, student orientation programs, residential life, and student affairs programming.

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