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Bonny Nickle
Bonny Nickle

Grad Max

Curious to hear success stories with this application!
Victor Urias
Victor Urias

Do any schools institue a Stress Managemnt/health/wellness program?

If so, how has it been effective in reducing or relieving student related stress? Who would direct such a program?
Blanca Zepeda
Blanca Zepeda

Training

Attrition/retention training is never complete. In order to improve we must train our faculty over and over again to gain a better outcome.
Blanca Zepeda
Blanca Zepeda

What motivates Students?

We need to know what motivates our students.
Blanca Zepeda
Blanca Zepeda

Students less engaged at the start of their program

We find that our new students are often less engaged at the beging of their program and often drop from their program within their first month. What sugestion do we have to wove them in enaging them the minute they first set foot on campus?
Bonny Nickle
Bonny Nickle

Web Based Retention Intervention System

Please share your successes with this type of system!
Bonny Nickle
Bonny Nickle

Acceptable Retention Rates

HI All Interested in your experience and research on acceptable retention rates for proprietary schools (primarily the short program diploma and the associate level programs). What is an acceptable retention rate for a program, instructor, school? What should we be striving for? Thanks for your responses!
Vicky Fulop-Berlin
Vicky Fulop-Berlin

How to approach stress related events for the student

When a student is closed to mid-term exams or final exams they could feel anxious about sucessfully completing the course. A few things we do to help them deal with this school related stress factor: 1) Creating a friendly atmosphere out side the classrooms from day one.Ex: we give breaks between classes. During these breaks students meet, talk and relax. 2) Check on what the student is "getting" outside the classroom by asking questions ( surveying ) 3) Talking about a funny anecdote or topic just before a test or preformance could help to relax. :-D
Douglas Maddox
Douglas Maddox

Creating Options

Helping students to create viable options is important to retention. Just a gentle nudge can start this process. Not just students, but all need some counseling when looking for an abundance of creative options to solve problems. The more options available the better the chances of reaching a suitable solution. An instructor can be a good listener and lead a student to his or her own solution. Many times we all have blinders on and tend to see only one way out. In the case of some students that would be to "quit". My question is : Some students never… >>>

Kelly Rottloff
Kelly Rottloff

Changing/Improving School Culture

How do you help improve the culture at a school to a more open, supportive enviroment as a new employee? It is often hard to create change with staff who are "set in their ways" and aren't open to necessary change to show our students we are a caring enviroment, not just a business.
Kelly Rottloff
Kelly Rottloff

How To Help The Anxious Student

How do you help the anxious student who refuses to seek any outside help, but continues to fail at school? I have recommended this student seek psychiatric services, but they have not done so. While I know you cannot force someone do get help, what can be done in the meantime to help this student during the time at school?
Kelly Rottloff
Kelly Rottloff

Shifting the Paradigm

How do we help support students who have been told their whole lives they will not succeed? Many of our students have had this engrained in their mind by family and others in their life. This effects their school performance and the school's retention rate tremendously.
Kelly Rottloff
Kelly Rottloff

Dealing With Admissions

How do we deal with students who are being admitted by admissions counselors that should not be, due to learning disabilities a school is not equipped with? The school I am employed by is private and does not have any plans on hiring special education teachers due to a small budget. These students are continually being admitted. It is frustrating both to students and faculty and seems to set these students up for failure.
Cheryl Matthias
Cheryl Matthias

HABE's and Blind Spots

How can career college educators and other college personnel be more aware of our HABE's and our personal blind spots? It is so easy to find flaws in others, but it is much more difficult when you have to critique your own attitudes.
Cynthia Crosby
Cynthia Crosby

What about online institutions?

Having students in various cities throughout the country and abroad, would it be best to have an orientation that is synchronous or asynchronous? All of our courses are asynchronous, but I wonder if orientation should be different, so as to develop more of a sense of community & to answer questions that many students may have (simultaneously).
Steve Nelson
Steve Nelson CHEP

Culture

I believe the topic is right on the point when it states that perception is reality. It is important to make sure a school has the proper culture that will foster growth of the students as well as the faculty to attain a high level of student understanding.
Steve Nelson
Steve Nelson CHEP

Best forms of student input

What are some of the best ways for students to give their input about what they would like to see in their school in the way of help, extra circular activities, decision input & over all policies? We have tried several things but the students do not as a large group participate in them.
Steve Nelson
Steve Nelson CHEP

Retention of Students vs. Retention of Employee's

Do you find that the same intervention practices used to retain students also work to retain employees? Instructors leave this career for stressors that would sometimes seem to be able to be reduced if expectations and focus are properly applied.
Steve Nelson
Steve Nelson CHEP

Retention & Empathy

I have found that many of our instructors have little or no empathy for our students under stress. I believe this is largely because they see themselves as coming up the "hard way" and are somewhat resentful of our students opportunities. Is this common among career schools?
Steve Nelson
Steve Nelson CHEP

Responsibility for Retention

It is sometimes difficult for school employees to understand that in one way or another we are all responsible for the retention of the students. This is realized through how we interact with them on a daily basis. It can be as easy as asking how someone is doing or as difficult as a coaching session that requires specialized assignments to help individuals succeed.