81%
Delgado Community College
Semester-to-semester retention among students who earned NSLS induction.
Reported by the NSLS for inducted students; not a causal estimate.
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Reported outcomes on real campuses
Explore campus outcomes, chapter stories, and the definitions behind each result.
Campus outcomes
95%
Merrimack College
Reported retention among students who joined the NSLS.
Reported by the NSLS for its members; not a causal estimate.
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These are reported campus figures. They do not establish that participation caused a retention change.
Case studies
33% → 46%
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, SC · 10,306 students
How Coastal Carolina's chapter built a trained student E-Board, raised its average induction rate from 33% to 46% with a peak of 49.8%, and received the NSLS Innovation Award.
81%
Delgado Community College
New Orleans, LA
Semester-to-semester retention among students who earned NSLS induction.
37%
St. Petersburg College
St. Petersburg, FL
In a one-campus pilot chapter, 24 students St. Petersburg College invited to join the NSLS were retained at a rate 37% above the college-wide rate.
95%
Merrimack College
North Andover, MA
Reported retention among students who joined the NSLS.
100+
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ
William Paterson went from a nearly inactive chapter to inducting more than 100 new members in spring 2022, and was named the NSLS's 2022 Chapter of the Year.