April, 1966. At Macalester College, 6 faculty members, relieved of one of their three courses, were assigned 120 freshman advisees. The remaining 400 freshman students, serving as a control group, were assigned a faculty adviser with a full-time teaching assignment. All freshmen completed a questionnaire and the College and University Environment Scales.By the end of the freshman year, women experimental students had a higher retention rate than control women, but no such difference appeared for men. While the two groups did not differ with respect to grades, proportionately more control students had been on academic probation. Women in the experimental group, more than those in the control group, saw the College as being friendly and practically oriented. Both men and women in the exDerimenta1 grow consulted their advisers more often than did those in (he control Gou;. -Macalester College.