As colleges and universities come under increased scrutiny and accountability the office, policy and procedures of institutional effectiveness will become more critical than ever before. In the following posting I will define institutional effectiveness, identify college offices of institutional effectiveness so that they reports, processes and procedures can be reviewed, and finally identify some [...]
Please email me with ideas, thoughts, observations! cathyandersonblog@gmail.com I wanted to present here on what kind of professional development is most effective for faculty to learn new strategies to increase retention of students, it was that line of thought that brought me back around to a topic I posted a bit on a few months [...]
Judy McShannon and Patricia Hynes of New Mexico State University wrote about the retention program; Gaining Retention and Achievement for Students Program, in their article Student Achievement and Retention: Can Professional Development Programs Help Faculty GRASP it? The article abstract describes the program as follows: This paper presents a unique faculty development program called [...]
There are many reasons why institutions focus on retention. In addition to the call across the country and the presidential administration institutions recognize that it’s the right and ethical thing to do citing reasons such as: By recognizing that many of the reasons students drop out can be reduced with some institutional programs and [...]
t What have institutions done to address retention? What are the action plans, activities and tasks assigned to improve retention. I have conducted a review of several retention plans and I will identify the common tasks or activities they have identified. I n 2010 the American Association of Community College Commission and Board of [...]
This is the blog I have been wanting to research, to think about and to write for some time..frankly this one just seemed too tough to tackle in many respects and that is how to address retention in online education. There are just too many factors to consider and given that where does one even [...]