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Retention: YOU are the Key! Instructor Strategies for Retaining Students

Retention: YOU are the Key! Instructor Strategies for Retaining Students. Troy University eTROY Colloquium April 17-18, 2012. Open Forum Addressing Poor Reading Skills. Dr. Hal Fulmer Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate and First Year Studies Dr. Terry Anderson

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Retention: YOU are the Key! Instructor Strategies for Retaining Students

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  1. Retention: YOU are the Key!Instructor Strategies for Retaining Students Troy University eTROY Colloquium April 17-18, 2012

  2. Open Forum Addressing Poor Reading Skills • Dr. Hal Fulmer • Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate and First Year Studies • Dr. Terry Anderson • Associate Professor and Regional Coordinator, MPA Program, Southeast Region, Global Campus • Dr. Scout Blum • Associate Professor of History, Troy Campus • Dr. Timon Paleologus • Associate Professor of Reading Education, Phenix City Campus

  3. Open Forum: Reading Skills • Goals of the Forum: • Discussion of the state of reading nationally and the specific status of student reading skills • Discussion of the impact, good and bad, of technological advances on reading skills • Discussion of specific steps toward assisting students to become better/more engaged readers

  4. Open Forum: Poor Reading Skills • Questions for our discussion: • What is the role of reading, nationally, today? • What is the current status of our students’ reading skills and reading engagement? • What is the relationship between reading and student success? • How have recent technological changes improved reading skills? How have these changes adversely affected reading skills? • What are the specific steps that instructors can take to help students become better/more engaged readers?

  5. Terry Anderson, Ph.D. • Associate Professor of Public Administration • Joined Troy University in 1998 • 21 years of public sector experience prior to coming to Troy (FBI and Broward Sheriff’s Office) • Served for 11 years as a visiting professor in the Republic of Georgia in an MPA program at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (2000-2010)

  6. Reading and Retention - How Do I Know That Graduate Students Don’t Read? • Course-specific content reading • Fail to participate in class discussions • Fail to conduct thorough research • Technical reading (e.g. syllabus, instructions for assignments) • Fail to follow specific instructions • Fail to meet specific deadlines

  7. Reading and Retention – Why Do I Think Graduate Students Don’t Read? • Lack of appreciation for “educational” reading vs. “job” reading • Length of reading assignments (impatient readers) • Preference for immediate response to questions • Cost of books • Laziness • Poor reading skills (self-discipline)

  8. Reading and Retention – So What Does This Mean for Retention of Graduate Students? • Lack of reading and poor reading skills lead to • Voluntary withdrawal • Confusion • Feeling of being overwhelmed • Feeling of being disconnected without help • Poor grade • Involuntary withdrawal • Accumulated poor grades lead to academic probation and student fails to return

  9. Reading and Retention – Strategies I Have Tried to Increase Reading • Blackboard Content Quiz • Administrative Law – book analyses • Foundations of PA – Classics book • Case Study Analysis exams

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