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Anna Plemons and Beth Buyserie, clinical assistant professors, and Patricia Freitag Ericsson, associate professor, English, coauthored the chapter “Retention, Critical Pedagogy, and Students as Agents: Eschewing the Deficit Model” in Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs (University Press of Colorado). The trio also will present “Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs: Supporting Student Success” at the National Conference on College Composition and Communication in Portland, Ore., in March.