The State of Prevention Work: What 1,590 Colleges Tell Us About Keeping Students Enrolled

Why Complete, Continuous Prevention Predicts First-Year Retention and Four-Year Graduation Rates

Every campus is accountable for student retention, yet prevention work is hard to judge from the outside. When it works, what it prevented never becomes visible. This guide puts numbers to it.

Vector evaluated 1,590 institutions against the nine criteria of the CPN Seal of Prevention. The 542 recipients post first-year retention rates 8.5 points higher than non-recipients. Inside, you’ll discover what sets them apart and how to:

• Widen prevention coverage across more of your course libraries.
• Sustain your prevention programming year over year.
• Measure your own outcomes to close the most common gap to the Seal.
• Address the risks linked to absenteeism, lower grades, and dropout.
• Make the retention case for prevention to campus leadership.

Download the guide for the full retention and graduation data, all nine CPN Seal criteria, and four steps toward prevention excellence.