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e 're back at Macalester College for our second site visit. This meeting is with the provost to get feedback about ihe interim report we sent a few weeks ago. We 're ready to record what he says we missed about what the coUege docs to enhance student success. Instead, he pulls out a pen and legal pad and says. "This was a fine report. Now lell us how we can do things better here at Mac." There's a lot of buzz these days about student success and educational effectiveness. College costs are rising and enrollments are at an all-time high, yet the proportion of students earning degrees has stayed more or less constant for decades. This leads some to conclude that colleges aren't holding up their end of the educational bargain. The question. Do they graduate? is receiving the most scrutiny by state legislatures and by those drafting the reauthorization legislation for the Higher Education Act. But policymakers, parents, and students are also asking tough questions about what they can reasonably expect from colleges and universities while students are enrolled. Are schools allocating

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