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First-year college student retention and degree completion is a multi-layered, multi-dimensional problem. This important resource draws on studies funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education, the authors revise current theories of college student departure, making the important distinction between residential and commuter colleges and universities, and thereby taking into account the role of the external environment and the characteristics of social communities in student departure and retention. The authors' consider the role that the various characteristics of states play in degree completion and first-year persistence.