Benefits to Universities Increase revenue resulting from higher retention. Reduce costs by shortening students’ time to completion. Promote timely feedback from university professors. Motivate students to write dissertations and graduate on time. Seminars confirm the university’s academic support for students’ success and its commitment to graduating its doctoral students. Proud doctoral alumni will be more willing to contribute to the University Campaigns. Attrition and long completion times in doctoral programs are costly to universities! Universities collect no tuition fees when students drop out. Yet, they must maintain faculty (and services) with less student revenue. They spend lots more than they earn when students take a long time to complete, bad for the universities’ bottom line. Many doctoral students who graduate are more likely to make generous financial and other contributions to their new Alma Mater. Finally, they fail to capitalize on admission referrals that result from satisfied doctoral graduates, a great source for quality referrals.