Research Question

What effect does academic advisor training have on the retention rates of freshmen engineering students?

*Vincent Tinto's model of student retention will be used as a framework for the research.
*By conducting a longitudinal study, I will measure freshmen engineering student's retention rates over a span of four years. Retention data will be gathered for two years; then, academic advisor training will be implemented, followed by additional data collection the next two years.

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