Student persistence programs

As with any broad based student success initiative, breaking down silos and enabling a cross-institutional approach to student success is key in all of these overviews. Several institutions have developed capacity for analyzing data using several data analytic companies including:.

University of South Florida first developed its own predictive analytic tools and, when retention rates did not improve, they contracted with Civitas Learning. Bucknell University , working with Deloitte and utilizing predictive analytics, examined Early Intervention for Students at Risk. Sparked by the work of the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition and by its founder, John Gardner , institutions throughout the country have implemented comprehensive first year experience initiatives.

With the goal of fostering a sense of belonging and connectedness to the academic and social experience, programs such as that at Southern Utah University offer good examples. Helping first generation and other student populations thrive socially and emotionally is an important component of any student success initiative. Student support groups, special interest groups, support for food and housing insecurity, support for students recovering from addiction, helping students access resources outside the institution public benefits as an example are all part of what any institution needs to plan for as a part of a student success initiative:.

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The value of engaged students. Stirling, A. Your current browser Internet Explorer is not supported. Student Involvement is a Statistically Significant Contributor to Positive Outcomes When students participate in co-curricular events , they increase self-efficacy, make friends, develop an enhanced understanding of others, become oriented to campus, make important gains in critical thinking, increase their intellectual and affective development, improve their resilience and well-being and develop marketable skills.

In addition to creating institutional learning outcomes and general education outcomes, use and align co-curricular learning outcomes frameworks such as CAS , Learning Reconsidered , LEAP , NACE , Wellness Wheel to organize and plan co-curricular programs and services. Create holistic, clearly articulated pathways to success so students can see the specific ways that they can develop skills that fit with their academic, personal and post-graduation goals.

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