Maura Pilotti has written an interesting review of Rebecca Cox's book The College Fear Factor. As you know, Dr. Cox will be at LU on Friday, April 15 and will deliver a session for faculty at 9:05 a.m. and one for students at 12:30 p.m. This is a terrific opportunity to participate in an interactive professional development seminar built from research data. If you are planning to send students to the afternoon session, CT+LE will be providing an attendance report so remind them to sign in at the event. By the way, there will be book signing opportunities following both events. The Quality Enhancement Plan approved by the LU administration in 2009 was designed to enhance the delivery methods of all core and developmental courses. The Active and Collaborative Engagement for Students (ACES) Fellows program is the outreach instrument for the QEP. We will be accepting applications for ACES Fellows cohort 3 until May 13. If you are considering applying to be an ACES Fellow, you should attend one of the two informational meetings being held on Monday, April 18 at 1:00 p.m. in 101A Education Building and Tuesday, April 19 at 9:30 a.m. in 204 Social and Behavioral Sciences Building. A research project by Rosemary Capps demonstrates that faculty who get to know their students personally and who validate them can provide a huge difference in relation to persistence and retention. She is also a huge proponent of faculty advising. Ms. Capps studied the lives of nine enduring students at an unnamed community college in the West. The students—six of whom were older than 25—were assigned to a developmental-reading class in the fall of 2008, and stayed enrolled at the college at least through 2009, even as many of their classmates dropped out.