Agreed. I think that schools need to be required by ACCSCT and ACICS to have student advisors as part of their accreditation standards. Unfortunately, all too many schools often can't see beyond the next start...and see numbers as their only way of measuring success, whther those numbers are enrollments or placements. The people that make up those numbers aren't in their Investment in the long-term seems like a foreign language to many companies within for-profit education. Our company has lengthened program length to include "soft courses"...and increased various in-house standards, including increased attendance percentage as a condition of graduation; as well as refining expectations of in-house conduct to demand the student acts as a professional within her/his field. So it's not as if they don't get certain aspects of the formula...but they don't seem to understand others. Giving instructors the long-term training to give them the tools to help in the retention process is one of those items. I'm sure they aren't, however, alone.