Posts Tagged ‘role of faculty in college student retention’
February 5 - A Data-Driven Approach to Student Retention and Success
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership
Higher education institutions generate a wealth of data that can be used to improve student success, but often the volume of data and lack of analysis prevent this data from having the impact it could have. “I think it’s hard for the general faculty population or administrator population to really have a handle on the data that is really driving decisions,” says Margaret Martin, Title III director and sociology professor at Eastern Connecticut State University. “They don’t get a chance to see it or they just get very infrequent information about it. So there may be too much data, but it’s often not communicated effectively to people in ways that are both understandable and useful to them.”
December 3 - Academic Customer Service Shouldn’t be a Dirty Word
By: Christine M. Nowik in Faculty Development
Earlier this year, we kicked off the semester with a faculty development workshop on academic customer service. Academic customer service is a hot and contentious topic on many college campuses, with faculty often reeling at the suggestion that students are customers (and therefore “always right”) or that education is a product intended for consumption. The feedback from our session in August was prickly and some of the comments demonstrated that we were in worse shape than I imagined.
April 21 - What Can I Do to Increase Student Retention?
By: Mary Bart in 20 Minute Mentor, Student Engagement
It’s never a good feeling to learn that a student has left your class … or worse, left school altogether. Often it comes as a complete surprise — before you even realize they have a problem, they’re gone.
August 27 - Student Retention: Faculty Taking on a Bigger Role
By: Magna Publications in EdTech News and Trends
Retention is a very important issue in higher education right now. It is not difficult to understand why, when you look at the budget constraints most postsecondary schools are currently facing.
June 22 - Learning Communities: Benefits Across the Board?
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Learning Communities
There is no question that higher education tends to get caught up in “fashionable” program innovations, and learning communities could certainly be considered an example. A great deal of research has established that, in terms of retention and persistence, first experiences in college are tremendously important.
April 12 - Helping At-Risk Students Succeed in the College Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Teaching and Learning
Only 51 percent of high school graduates who took the ACT met ACT’s College Readiness Benchmark for Reading, which demonstrates their readiness to handle the reading requirements for typical first-year college coursework. For some groups, the percentage is even more discouraging: African American students are at 21 percent, while Hispanic American students and students from families whose annual income is less than $30,000 are both at 33 percent.
February 5 - Teaching Unprepared Students: Success and Retention Strategies
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
There are more unprepared students arriving on college campuses than ever before. The number of college students with defined learning disabilities has tripled, while many other students simply have inadequate reading, writing, and study skills. Get practical strategies for improving at-risk students’ skills and increasing student success rates.
