Sara Chisdock

We have a Retention Committee and it is composed of a faculty member from each department as well as a member from the admissions team, financial aid, and career services. We also felt that we should have input from the student body. We had the student council choose a representative and then they will discuss what topics they would like to bring to the meeting. We are going to have our meeting with the student representative soon. Hopefully, it will yield positive results.

Loren Kroh

Will the student representative be in all discussions? Do they have a voting place on the committee? What are the expectations about them reporting back to the student body?

Lucy Dooley

We don't have a formal retention committee that has this name. We have Enrollment Committees. We have a Pre-Career Enrollment Committee that consists of a representative from career services, admissions, registrar's office, manager and assistant manager of ESL/Academic Upgrading, and manager of student services. We address all issues that have anything to do with enrollment matters, so our mandate is quite large, but the issues we address are making a difference for students. For example, we would deal with scheduling issues,student withdrawals, etc. Sometimes, we function as an appeal body to deal with a specific student and an issue.

We also have a Professional Program Enrollment Committee that has representation from managers of different programs, career services, admissions and student services. Here we deal with specific things that affect this body of people and their enrollment issues.

We do not have students on board. I don't think we are at a stage yet to do this.