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Retention

Retention. A Study by Dr. Mason’s English 1101H Class. Strategies. Academic factors in student retention Student services Administrative factors in student retention. Academic factors. What do students need in order to be ‘retainable?’. Academic skills Goal-setting Self-Confidence.

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Retention

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  1. Retention A Study by Dr. Mason’s English 1101H Class

  2. Strategies • Academic factors in student retention • Student services • Administrative factors in student retention

  3. Academic factors

  4. What do students need in order to be ‘retainable?’ • Academic skills • Goal-setting • Self-Confidence

  5. Institutional Selectivity • Armstrong accepts roughly 57% of students • Armstrong is considered selective

  6. Motivation? • Vital to retention, or unrelated? • Deserves a study of its own?

  7. Student Services

  8. Easy access to student services • Tech • Food • Involvement on campus • Financial assistance

  9. Administrative Strategies

  10. First-Year Experience Seminar • Honors Program • Mandatory Advisement • At-risk student intervention • Student Retention Committees • Commuter Outreach

  11. Financing retention • Direct correlation between spending on student affairs/services and retention

  12. Conclusion

  13. Consider student affairs a long-term investment • Utilize student input to find areas of the current student services that AASU could do without, and relocate those resources to programs that support retention more effectively • Continue using and improving the FYE program • Make sure that student services continue effectively throughout the degree programs; avoid AASU becoming a first year school

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