The program for Undergraduate and Graduate retention at GW is structured around key Recommendations set forth by the OAPA Strategic Plan. Following is a brief description of these recommendations.

1. Academic Planning and Assessment:
   a. Establish office
   b. Appoint Advisory Council on Undergraduate Retention and Graduation
2. Advising:
   a. Hire additional professional advisors to support staff to implement recommendations
   b. Provide freshmen advisors with high school records, SAT scores, class rank, scores on placement tests, and admissions ratings of advisees
   c. Provide schools with a list of school-specific risk indicators for their students
   d. Review CI registration; contact students whose course loads should be changed
   e. Deliver fall semester grades to advisors before the start of spring courses and make contact with students who failed fall course(s) or have registered for inappropriate courses
   f. Advisors to meet with all freshmen early in spring semester
   g. Require all first, second, and third semester students to meet with their advisors before registering for classes
   h. Provide professional staff advising for students who are doing substandard work
   i. Provide more intensive advising for minority students
   j. Provide more intensive advising for international students
   k. Develop workshop to educate faculty advisors in CSAS and SEAS
   l. Increase amount of feedback provided before 7th week of classes in lower division courses; make consistent and more effective use of midterm warnings for freshmen and sophomores
   m. Contact students who have earned at least 111 credits and are not currently registered. Review and amend residency requirements
   n. Develop an Academic Success Center
3. Residence Life:
   a. Train Community Living and Learning Center staff to identify patterns of behavior which place students at risk
   b. Train Community Living and Learning Center staff to identify at-risk students and to recommend appropriate services for assistance
4. Student Awareness:
   a. Advertise academic support services in the Hatchet
   b. Develop website promoting academic success
5. BANNER Improvements:
   a. Increase staffing in Registrar's office to enter and maintain degree requirements
   b. Train individuals in degree audit program
   c. Program course pre- and co-requisites into Banner. Ensure that blocked registration is overridden by instructor only
   d. Utilize Banner object analysis function to facilitate identification of students with W, F, I, and Z grades or notations. Identify students with gaps between earned and attempted credit hours
6. Financial Aid:
   a. Analyze students' self-reported indebtedness, employment practices, and financial aid
   b. Explore increasing work study awards
   c. Increase PREP/PAL grants
   d. Develop an Academic Success Center
7. Curriculum and co-curricular activities:
   a. Facilitate departmental and school efforts to develop more challenging academic experiences
   b. Increase number of sections of lower division courses taught by faculty
   c. Provide support for departmental and school efforts to develop more extensive co-curricular activities in support of academics