This handbook for those involved in assisting and encouraging college students to persist and graduate covers the following topics: benefits of college; persistence factors; successful students; a mission that motivates; results in real time; self-management through self-mastery (time management, assertiveness, study skills, learning styles, and mind control); team building/team playing; course correction; change management; and a success course, persistence and a college degree. Following a list of references, additional resources are given on (1) goal selection; (2) applied learning theory; (3) your style of learning and thinking; (4) the right and left brain hemisphere functions; (5) train yourself to induce deep muscle relaxation; and (6) formula for success. Various checklists and self-test questionnaires are included. (KM)