Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Student Retention

Grants in the Student Retention program work to improve understanding of the factors underlying undergraduate and graduate completion rates and to encourage individual campuses to collect and make visible undergraduate and graduate completion rates and time-to-degree.

In pursuit of the first goal we share research results with willing campuses and interested national higher education organizations and seek opportunities to encourage the collection and publication of completion rate and time-to-degree data.  In pursuit of the second goal we work with national, regional and state higher education organizations and with others that are interested in these issues. 

Program Director: Elizabeth Boylan Bio