How a person feels is how a person behaves.  We must be sensitive citizens to our students to drive a trust based relationship with them

How does your school identify student's who are experiencing stress?  Do you quantify this risk in any way?  

How a student percieves themselves, thier situation and / or thier school all have individual and cumlatitve impact to thier success at school ie retention 

It was very helpful to see the reinforcement toward personal connection with students as a main driver to student engagement / retention.  Additionally and with 100% agreement, "everyone" plays a role in student retention.  Lastly, I found the information specific to the difficult situation instructors can be in to keep "seats in seats" to a be a real challenge and reinforced the need for a school to have a student services department that is focused on building relationships with its students