Students want to believe the school's committment to supporting their academic endeavors, and they often take the time to see what services and resources schools offer when making their choice. In addition, retention can be defined in many ways, depending on one's department but it is important to have the same message when speaking with students.
I have learned that it is everyones responsibility to reasure the student has a sense of balance, connection and relationship with Instructors and well as Staff. We are all in this together as a TEAM to SUCCEED!
Rentention takes the efforts of all campus departments.
Retention Basics
What have I learned from this module?
Retention is very important for many reasons.
- It demonstrations students’ desire to improve by gaining an education and hands on experience.
- It helps the employers with supply chain and industry growth.
- It is necessary for budgetary reasons.
Retention needs to analyzed
- Retention needs to be looked at closely to determine what patterns exist
- Faculty and Staff need to take a proactive approach to retention
- Students are important and not just a number, carefully review each situation that caused a student to drop
How do I intend to apply it?
- Students to be a number one priority, so spend more time focusing on the student’s needs.
- Students need to be heard, listen and provide answers/solutions to questions/concerns.
Retention is a school-wide effort and we need to communicate where those lines of communication are open for the students.
Retention crosses all departments within a school. Proactive services that are well outlined for students can assist with engagement. Unique, specific, and transparent data may help identify common roadblocks.
The modue was a good refresher for me. In my experiecnce in higher education these past 13 years is the early intervention is key to a student success. It is important to let students know that you are there to help them be success and their studies. This is the job of the entire university.
I have learned that one department can't do it all. All departments need to have the same urgency and invest in student success.
Keeping in touch with our students and being aavailable to them to hear any and all concerns.
I strongly agree that retention is everyone's job. But educational institutions have a challenge with faculty and training on this issue. Yes the administration has an impact on the process, but we need adequate input from the academy to address student situations.
I've learned it is important to do the right things, the right way, right place and right time. Timng is everything and when students are making decisions that wil impact their lives, they want to make sure they are selecting a College that will help them aachieve their goals.Students want a clear understanding of how the classes will work and build on each other. They want to see how the classes will help them and feel respected throuh each step along the way. Everyone on campus is responsible in some way for retention and contrivutes to the campus success.
Retention means different things for different people involved in the educational process. To me, as the educator, I want my students to continue to grow and stay engaged and remain successful in the program. As the educator, it is my job to be thorough and helpful to help them stay on track.
Retention is the byproduct of doing the right thing and having the right people in the right place at the right time...Such emphasis on the importsnce falculty plays in promoting retention.
There are necessary as well as unnecessary causes of attrition. We need to focus on both causes. To assist students in navigating the unforeseen circumstances such as illness, family issues, etc as well as taking a preventative measure for the unnecessary causes. Even though faculty are the front line, everyone at the institution is responsible for retention.
In this section I've learned that retention includes many things. One of those includes how well an institution engages with their students. It is important to identify and act on signs that lead to students withdrawing. It is understandable that not every student enrolled will graduate, but how do you identify a pattern and widely address it?
There is a lot of information covered during orientation and some of it is never revisited. I think there should be time set aside for members of faculty to come by the classrooms regularly to say hi and remind them what they can help the students with.
Having the right people in the right roles can help identify students who are at risk of dropping or struggles so the appropriate intervention strategies can be put into place.
It is every employee's responsibility to help retain students
It's important to remember that retention is everyone's responsibility. Often, admissions is blamed for not recruiting the best students. Instead of blaming one department, we all can take accountability for student retention. We need to determine barriers for retention and provide support for at-risk students.
Retention is the responsibility of the entire campus rather than one specific department.
