SOUTHEAST WINS 1995 RETENTION AWARD

The Secrets to Success Series at Southeast Missouri State University has been selected to receive a 1995 Retention Excellence Award in a national competition sponsored by the Noel Levitz National Center for Student Retention.

Five two- and four-year colleges and universities were chosen to receive awards at the national conference July 26 to 29 in New York City. Dr. Patricia Volp, assistant vice president for student development, nominated Southeast for the award.

The Secrets to Success Series provides voluntary workshops to entering freshmen to enable them to be successful and to encourage them to return in January after completing their first semester of college.

Volp said those beginning freshmen who participated in at least one workshop had a significantly higher grade-point average at the end of the fall 1994 semester than beginning freshmen who didn't participate.