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Background Materials and Additional Resources

Reports & Presentations by UC & UC Santa Cruz

• UC Santa Cruz Retention and Graduation Statistics
• Six Year Graduation Rates - by gender and ethnicity for each of the UC campuses are available from the UC Office of the President.
• Undergraduate Persistence, Graduation & Time-to-Degree Rates of First-Time Freshman Students (University of California, 1991 through 2001)

Reports by Other Organizations

• Choosing to Improve: Voices from Colleges and Universities with Better Graduation Rates (Education Trust, January 2005)
• One Step from the Finish Line: Higher College Graduation Rates are Within Our Reach (Education Trust, January 2005)
• A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities (Education Trust, March 2004)
• College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success edited by Alan Seidman with a foreword by Vincent Tinto (2005, American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education)--this book is available at McHenry Library [view catalog listing]
• Student Retention and Graduation: Facing the Truth, Living with the Consequences (Vincent Tinto, July 2004)
• Undergraduate Persistence, Graduation & Time-to-Degree Rates of First-Time Freshman Students
• Degree Attainment Rates at Colleges and University (January 2005 study available from the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute; press release about study)

Other Internet Resources

• College Results Online (an interactive Web tool, created by The Education Trust, with information about student graduation rates at four-year colleges and universities)