Understanding what causes attrition among our students helps us intevene and assist them so they can continue in our schools and achieve their goals.
Refers to the rate at which students leave or drop out of a program or institution. Understanding college attrition involves examining factors like academic challenges, financial constraints, personal issues, and the overall college experience. Institutions may address this by providing support services, improving academic programs, or enhancing campus life to foster student retention.
Attrition has strong emotional and psychological underpinnings for students. It takes a comprehensive effort on the part of staff and faculty to help ensure that students feel a sense of belonging to counteract potential thought of dropping out.
I agree with the statement "stress is real, not just a feeling." Great point.
The entire school/institution must create a positive and productive atmosphere to help students succeed.
Everyone needs to be involved, not just the faculty. You need to show each student that you care and recognize some of the stressors before its too late. Sometimes the students need to see a different point of view and they need to know we support them.
Hello Everyone! To ensure students remain engaged and committed to their program and the institution, commitment, care, understanding, and communication must be consistently displayed and fostered with the students.
It is important to show the students your effort and that you care, so they will adopt the same attitude. I believe that outcomes are created by what you put in.
It is very important for a school to have faculty and staff in place ready to honestly care for all the students. Instructors are not the only ones that should be directly dealing with the stress students may be going through. Administrators should be able to communicate with instructors to provide resources to those students that may need them. Students deal with stress in different ways and having administrators willing to help them is very important. Understanding the General Adaptation Syndrome is important.
Stress promotes thoughts driven by how many resource reserve remain for coping.
Making sure the school, faculty and staff communicate to all students that each student matters and the school is there for them whenever possible. This can help reduce GAS
It was interesting to see the stress diagram. I think it makes a lot of sense that students reach the point of attrition when they reach the point where they don't feel like they have any reserves or resources left.
Everyone in our school plays a role in student retention. Good communication and professional attitudes are very important to ensure the trust from our students and their success.
All the institution must be involved in school commitment.
This has given me confirmation that all of our student meetings are worth it. All the extra time to show each student we care about their success is important.
Academic erosion stress and academic stagnation stress are two of the strongest influences on attrition. How the school and school staff view and treat a student can make all the difference in the retention of a student.
Accompaniment to the student must be a duty of all those who represent the institution.
More essential in the first semester.
where more stresses generated due to the changes the the student is experiencing and being able to identify and provide support would help the student and the institution
Comment on Susan Wright's post: I agree they are why we are here.
I must say this is very good training for an instructor. *This training shows us that we need to make time to help the students. * they are why we are here. * Students need know that we care.
