ABSTRACT
This chapter presents study findings to explain how Native undergraduates used mainstream and Native programs to support their persistence to graduation at the University of New Mexico. It analyses the students’ levels of involvement, satisfaction of the services received, and why some students didn’t use them. The chapter explores stop-out information and reasons for stopping out. It presents some findings of a research study that examined the personal and institutional factors that affect the retention of American Indian undergraduates at the University of New Mexico during the academic period between fall 1990 and fall 1996. The chapter examines how the Native American Studies Academic and Retention and Intervention (NASARI) Program affected the persistence, retention, and graduation rates of American Indian undergraduate students enrolled at the University of New Mexico. It identifies personal and institutional factors outside of NASARI that may have affected the persistence, retention, and graduation rates.
