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Student Presentation (No formal paper)

**Are they connected? Social Networking for Student Retention** //Robin Bartoletti, Graduate Student, Dallas County Community College District, Dallas, TX, USA, rbartoletti@dcccd.edu //

With all the recent talk about using social networking to increase student retention and engagement on college campuses, schools are scrambling to find ways to implementing new strategies that involve tools such as Twitter and Ning. Research has always shown that with increased engagement, and connection a student feels the more likely they are to stick around. Come and see a Retention Grant project by the LeCroy Center that resulted in an eCampus course design and template that includes social networking strategies available to DCCCD faculty.

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