The Grizzly, November 17, 1998

Bring in the New Year with a New Problem • Airband: Still Searching for a Cause • Update: New Gym • Opinion: Opportunity to Gain a Degree Should be for Everyone • Full-time Students, Part-time Jobs • Is Anyone Listening?: WVOU • Swing Night at Ursinus • Eden Cinema: Paradise • Cross Country Sprints to End • Women\u27s Soccer Season Concludes • Seniors Step-Up on the Volleyball Court • UC Swimming Drops Home Opener • Ursinus Wrestlers Hungry to Regain Title • Field Hockey Struggles Through Rebuilding • UC Football Loses Final Battle of Season • UC Football Players Honored • Donahue and Bailey Represent UChttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1429/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 22, 1998

Ursinus Gears Up for Family Day • Dr. Fouts Gives Lecture on Chimpanzee Research • Freshman Class Election Results • Opinion: Ursinus\u27 Movement Towards Diversity; In Response to Has America Sunk to the Level of Terrorists? • Presentations on Family Day • Help is out There • Old Dogs Don\u27t Need New Tricks • Big, Big Band: Big, Big Success • Theater Life • Field Hockey Wrap-Up • UC Volleyball Evens Out at 2-2 • Bears Recognized in Centennial Conference Honor Roll • Lady Bears Suffer Conference Losses • Men\u27s Soccer Split Games • Football Falls in Conference Opener • Flo Jo Dies at 38 • Ripken Ends Streakhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1424/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 9, 1998

Campus Mourns Loss of Colleague and Friend • Ursinus Loses Distinguished Alum and Benefactor • New Additions to Corson • Ursinus Welcomes New Resident Directors, Dyess and Ray • Renowned Psychologist to Speak on Research • Black History Figure of the Week: Peter Salem (1750-1816) • Opinion: Bill Clinton and the Hype About Sexual Harassment • 10 + 29 = Bridge Success • UC Bio Rocks • Independence in Avignon • Labyrinth Brings Relaxation • Mice Research Helping Humans • Ursinus Football Off to Rocky Start • Field Hockey in Full Swing • This Week in Soccer • UC Volleyball Blanks Rosemonthttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1422/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 15, 1998

Where\u27s Your Money Going? • Kenneth Starr\u27s XXX-Files • Pfahler Hall Renovations: The Sound of Progress • Opinion: Has America Sunk to the Level of Terrorists?; Academic Computing: Beneficial or Detrimental?; How Efficient Will the New Mail System Be? • Poets in Our Midst • RLO = One Big Happy Family • The Man from La Mancha has Gone Home • Addition Made to the History Department • Statues Breathe Life into Ursinus • Elyssa Rundle: The Spirit of the Paint • Big Big Band at UC • New Addition to Ursinus Training Staff • Men\u27s Soccer Plagued by Injuries • Football Back on Track • Women\u27s Soccer Shuts Out Washington • Field Hockey Drops Two Close Ones • Hinkle Named Player of the Week • UC Cross Country • UC Volleyball Improves to 7-1https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1423/thumbnail.jp

Honors and the Completion Agenda: Identifying and Duplicating Student Success

For better or worse, longitudinal studies that track student persistence each semester serve as the primary measurement of an institution’s success or, as the findings are often received at many of the country’s community colleges, an institution’s failure. These studies take place at the institutional and state-wide levels as well as nationally through grant-based organizations such as Complete College America. At the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), where I have served as a faculty member and honors program director for the past eight years, these studies consistently reveal low college-wide retention and graduation rates. According to Maryland’s state-wide longitudinal approach, even after discarding the statistics of students who attempt fewer than eighteen credits, barely two of five CCBC degree-seeking students graduate or transfer within four years (CCBC, “accountability report”). Accordingly, discussion of success rates often strikes a tone somewhere between apologetic and mournful