Retention

This section of "Teaching Ideas" challenges individual professors and whole institutions to learn from successes and good ideas of others to reduce the sorting and weeding out of students and educate all students.

	Academic Support Centers can play a major role in establishing a culture of learning on at a college.
	To make academic advising more than simply signing registration forms requires individual and systemic dedication to student interactions of many kinds.
	Feedback on clarity of lectures from some English as a Second Language students is offered as a sort of self-check scale to estimate how many ways are used during a lecture to drive home the information and attitudes required to advance students' learning.
	Do students have to choose between home and college in order to succeed? This brief summary suggests 3 levels of pressure exerted by parents [and spouses?] on first-generation students.
	Faculty can use a web page to get feedback from students routinely so that they know soon after class what students "got" and what they "missed."
	Systemic means for increasing retention are demonstrated by programs enhanced by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to 10 traditionally black colleges and universities who generally increased already high retention rates.

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