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Beyond the 2010 NAICU Annual Meeting


The NAICU Annual Meeting may be over, but you can still benefit from many of the sessions and speakers.  We've assembled speech texts and PowerPoints for many of the sessions, available on our 2010 Annual Meeting Presentations page.


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Focus on graduation could be rough for small private colleges

Contra Costa Times


February 8, 2010


Graduation rates are likely to move to the forefront of national higher-education discussions this year, putting particular pressure on schools such as Holy Names University, where just 17 percent of the students who arrive as freshmen put on a cap and gown within six years. With President Barack Obama calling on colleges to dramatically increase the number of graduates over the next decade, Holy Names and other small private schools are entering an era of self-examination. For many, it is a matter of figuring out how to improve their dismal numbers without turning away the students who tend to contribute to those low rates.


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