Less than half the students who start at America's public colleges make it to graduation. But CUNY's pioneering student success programs--ASAP, CUNY Start and others--are a model for what can be done to keep students in school and on track. So says David Kirp, a prominent education policy expert at the University of California, Berkeley, whose new book, "The College Dropout Scandal," includes an uplifting and prescriptive chapter about CUNY's programs.