Tag: Retention: Page 8

Students

Speaking of Student Retention

Fresh off a speaking engagement at the National Dialog on Student Retention Conference, a one-and-a-half-day conference held in Atlanta, Dr. Rodrick Moore, director of multicultural student affairs at the University of South Carolina, discusses the unique retention challenges minority students face in today’s college climate and shares key strategies for retaining this growing group of students.

June 12, 2008

Students

Upping the Numbers

Outreach efforts at The Ohio State University result in the increased retention of Black male students.

June 11, 2008

Recruitment & Retention

Task Force Presents Report on Iowa Universities and Minorities

Officials at Iowa’s public universities want to close the graduation and retention gap between white and minority students.

May 5, 2008

Students

New Report Highlights Schools That Make Minority Student Success a Priority

The causes of poor college graduation rates among low-income, first-generation and minority students have pervaded the pages of academic publication for years, while the instances in which African-American students have outperformed their White counterparts in the same area have gone largely undocumented.

April 20, 2008

Community Colleges

PUTTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS FIRST

Faced with a growing population of first-generation students, many colleges are undertaking unique initiatives to recruit and retain these students.

April 16, 2008

Latinx

Colleges Encouraged to Improve the Student Experience By Using Identified Best Practices

Jackson State University discovered through a student survey that students were not feeling engaged at the institution, and despite problematic academic probation and retention rates, were not taking advantage of the support services available.

March 12, 2008

Native Americans

Study Reveals Low Retention Rates for Nevada’s American Indian Students

A study presented to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents shows that only 57 percent of American Indian freshmen at Nevada colleges and universities continue on to their sophomore year, according to an article in University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s student newspaper, The Rebel Yell. The rest either transfer to an out-of-state […]

February 19, 2008

Students

A New Retention Tool: Personal Coaches For Students

For years, Northeastern University¡¯s School of Professional and Continuing Studies was losing its students at a disturbing rate.

February 14, 2008

MSIs

Black Male Initiative Worth Duplicating

New York City College of Technology’s Black Male Initiative (BMI) program was recently named one of nine U.S. Model Replication Institutions by NASA and the National Science Foundation for its innovative approaches in attacking the problem of Black male student enrollment and retention.

November 28, 2007

Students

Southern University’s Interim Chancellor Trying to Retain Students

BATON ROUGE La. Margaret Ambrose may only be the “interim” chancellor of Southern University, but that does not mean she is just keeping a seat warm.

October 14, 2007

Students

University of New Mexico freshmen retention rate tops 76 percent

ALBUQUERQUE A record 76.6 percent of freshmen who began their coursework at the University of New Mexico last summer and fall returned for a second year, school officials said Monday.

October 1, 2007

Recruitment & Retention

Purdue President Cordova sets retention, graduation goals in new strategic plan

WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. Purdue University will focus on increasing retention and graduation rates under a strategic plan taking shape under new President France Cordova.

October 1, 2007