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Reviews the literature on the reasons that students drop out of college. Offers a plan for freshman retention that asks students about their goals at registration, provides them with a six-hour orientation emphasizing academic excellence, teams them with a faculty mentor, and includes a mandatory for-credit seminar on attending college. (DMM)

Discusses freshman retention in community colleges in the United States. Tinto's theoretical model of the dropout; Student retention and student involvement; Proposed plan for freshman retention.