spends a lot of time training and developing their RA's and a returning RA can be considered a very valuable commodity by the Department. The turnover rate being so high forces the department to almost literally start from scratch at the beginning of each Fall semester The purpose of this project was to survey current RA's and try to determine why the retention rate is so low. In order to ensure that I had the most information possible and that i did not bias the results I surveyed all the RAs employed by the Department This project aimed to discover how satisfied RAs are with their job correlated with different aspects of their job and why or why not ra's would choose to leave the Department as an employee. I feel this project was worth doing because the information it provided can be a useful tool for the Department in trying to increase the ra retention rate and become a stronger, more marketable employer Objectives The objectives of this project were broken down into several key factors that set the scene for the purpose of this study. In order to answer the research question, the following objectives were established To determine if RA's felt comfortable with the scope of their job and their responsibilities To determine how RA's perceive they are being treated To determine how ras feel about training