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	<title>Facebook in Higher Education &#187; retention</title>
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	<description>The Inigral Blog is Higher Education&#039;s place to learn about using Facebook for institution-wide needs.</description>
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		<title>Using Social Networking to Increase Student Retention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Zanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected Research on Social Networking from Emily Dalton Smith (Director of Student Engagement at ASU Online), and Michael Staton (CEO and Co-Founder of Inigral, Inc.). This was derived from a poster presentation that ASU and Inigral presented at Educause 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networking for Engagement and Retention</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Klingensmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the recent talk about using social networking to increase student engagement on college campuses, schools are scrambling to find data to support spending time, money, and effort on implementing new strategies that involve tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Here is a collection of recent research.]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook for Retention: An Annotated Bibliography</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Klingensmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As more and more colleges and universities dive into using social media and social networking to attract and keep students, there is an increasing body of literature on the topic.  The following is a collection of resources showing the success of using Facebook to keep students engaged and to increase retention in higher ed.]]></description>
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		<title>Students Want Existing Connections Uncovered On Campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Zanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The freshman experience has always been an elusive target for higher ed institutions, primarily because it's clear how to engage with high school students, and it's clear how to engage with college students. But it's the transition between high school and college that is consistently awkward for the student, the instructor, and the mentor. Entire departments are dedicated to this cracking the code on this one phenomenon.]]></description>
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		<title>Build Communities That Will Last</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Klingensmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Student retention is a growing concern for colleges and universities throughout the United States.  With decreasing endowments, every student that pays tuition every year brings the campus valuable operating funds, not to mention a more vibrant community.]]></description>
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