retention
Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap
Latino schooling in the U.S. has historically been characterized by high dropout rates and low college completion rates1. According to a national survey of 2,012 Latinos ages 16 and older by the Pew Hispanic Center, nearly three-quarters (74%) of all 16- to 25-year-old survey respondents cut their education short because of the need to support a family. read more »
Central New Mexico's Emergency funds helps students stay enrolled
Students who got emergency funds from Central New Mexico College's Rust Opportunity Fund were retained at nearly 20% higher rates than first-time students, according to an article in today's Inside Higher Ed. Awards averaged just over $400 in 2008 for the 244 recipients. read more »
Building learning communities for student success: The pedagogy of intentional integration
Brad E. Hollingshead, Associated Dean for Foundational Learning & Assessment, Medaille College
Learning Communities: Everybody’s doing ‘em. Majority are linked courses. How do you design these for long-term success? Seek to connect students, faculty, staff, learning. Need to be a campus-wide effort. Look for materials on website.
Learning communities seek to intentionally restructure how students spend time learning. Important to set goals for learning community. read more »
Casting a net on a shoe-string budget: Student success and retention strategies that work
Mary Chase, Assoc VP for Enrollment
Sue Selde, Academic Success Coordinator
Retention Initiatives: Family Calling Initiative, RISK, Faculty Feedback
Creighton information
- 7,000 students, Jesuit, 3 colleges + grad programs in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, law, physical therapy, occupational therapy
- Medium to highly selective (my guess)
- Fall→spring: 5.5, 4.6, 3.1 attririon from 2006 to 2008
- 14.1, 13.5, 10.7% Fall to fall, 2006 → 2008
Family Calling Initiative read more »
The Sophomore Slump: Strategies for supporting and retaining second year students.
Presenter: Julie Stockenberg, Colorado College, jstockenberg@coloradocollege.edu Audience survey: Few people have programs for sophomores, nobody has a comprehensive program. Colorado College is a small liberal arts college. Colorado College has a different schedule. For details visit their web site. Foundational literature: 2 monographs from USC’s National Resource Center for the First-year experience. The first book on the topic is due out in fall. read more »
Retention for Rookies: Tim Culver, VP, Consulting Services for Noel-Levitz
Got here late – sitting in the front row…
Culver has delivered this talk 7 or 8 years in a row but acknowledges that most of us are not really rookies.
Early points: Has retention really been defined? If retention is everybody’s job, it is nobody’s job.
Aside: Retention is not what we do – it is an outcome of what we do. Retention = outcome of quality programs and services. Don’t let IPEDS get in the way of measuring your more direct outcomes. read more »
Noel Levitz Conference, 2009
Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz, Phillip Johnson, and Melody Munson-McGee are in San Antonio, Texas for Noel-Levit’s 2009 National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing, and Retention.
Today at 2:00 we present our talk on Beyond Students: Staff use of social networking applications for student services.
Will blog throughout the conference for updates --
Researchers Propose 6 Ways to Keep Community-College Students Beyond the First Few Weeks
The students most at danger of dropping out tend to drop out within the first three weeks of school. Nearly 30 percent of students fail to make it to even their second semester. In an effort to meet President Obama's goal of the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020, the Center for Community College Student Engagement has released Imagine Success: Engaging Entering Students. read more »
Resources for Social Networking in Higher Education
