<p>I know schools always stress retention and the fact that we need to keep and engage our students and I think most instructors have a general knowlege of how to do this. I do think though that these modules gave me real tools that I can use. It's easy for our deans and presidents to say we need to retain students, but it was nice to actually get some real tools I can use to do this. I also realized that it really all starts at the beginning. There were a lot of orientation ideas that these modules provided me withthat we do not implement in our orientations. We need to have more faculty and student involvement in our orientations and I know have some recommendations to bring up in our next meeting.</p> <p>-Jaime Gundersen</p>