Women in Higher Education: Designing Comprehensive Retention Efforts for an HBCU

In her 2016 book, What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates, Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume, Associate Vice President for Student Success and Retention at Morgan State University MD, shares some of the practices she and her staff utilize. Mindful that the students with which they work have “layered challenges”—first-generation college students, high schools that did not thoroughly prepare them to succeed in college or financial challenges—Mfume manages programs and services that have helped to promote 10-point increases in retention and graduation rates.

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