John “Skip” Crooker (Decision Support), Laurel Pritchard (Executive Vice President and Provost), Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), and Christina Drum (Decision Support) recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Los Angeles. Their study, titled “Academic Momentum, Financial Aid Dynamics, and Stop-Out Risk: Evidence from Discrete-Time Hazard Models,” examines how academic momentum and financial aid dynamics shape student persistence and completion trajectories.