This is the third in a series of reports designed to highlight and clarify the data collected by the CCCU project, “Taking Values Seriously: Assessing the Mission of Church-Related Higher Education.” In this report we will synthesize the results from this project with the results of the CCCU’s Quality/Retention (Q/R) Project. Each of the main findings of what is often called “the FIPSE project” will be either compared to similar data from the Quality/Retention Project or interpreted in light of some of the recent research in student retention.