• Who is responsible for retention at the University and how are retention activities to be coordinated?
  • Role of University College
  • Role of Graduate Studies
  • Role of Student Affairs
• What is the target population - level, cohort?
• Why do some students persist to graduation and other fail?
• Why do students voluntarily leave the University?
• Should we perform an exit interview?
• What can we do to "save" those who are marginal/at risk students?
• How can we examine course-taking patterns to help students to succeed, both new students and transfer students? Are there options?
• What is the role of the early warning system?
• What specific information do we need to capture?
• Who should receive the information?
• What should be done with the information?
• Do we want invasive or informational interventions?
• What is the role of academic advising? Peer advising? Mentoring? Tutoring?
• How does the admission standard affect retention?
• What is the minimum numeric standard common to the successful student?
• Math? Verbal? High school GPA?
• Transfer GPA?
• What do the numbers tell us about students who are potentially at risk? Math? Verbal?
• Do or should the six traditional colleges have varying admission standards?
• Do college standards adversely impact retention?
• Are threshold courses used to identify at risk students and pose a necessary barrier?
• Can we identify the successful student?
• What do we need to know about the "at risk" population?
• Create a profile?
• What can the data tell us? Do we know what data we need?
• How does our current infrastructure support (or not) retention efforts?
• What role does the physical campus environment play in retention?
• How does the transition from commuter to residential campus affect student retention?
• What role does housing play?
• What is the role of campus engagement? Social/community connections? Volunteerism?
• What about course attendance?
• Ability to use available technologies for review (blackboard, pod-casting, course capture, etc.?
• Is it possible for these technologies to replace physical course attendance?
• Should the attendance policy be reviewed?

Minutes, Meeting Dates and Agenda

• Tuesday, October 9, 2008, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  
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• Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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• Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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• Goals
• Summary