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CREATING THE CULTURE OF RETENTION
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PresentersAngel Rhodes, M.A.
Financial Aid Director and Retention Coordinator
10+ years experience in higher education including TRIO and financial aid
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PresentersNate Slaton, M.A.E., M.B.A.
Vice President of Enrollment Management
12+ years experience in higher education including TRIO, Records, Financial Aid, and Enrollment Management
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WKCTC is a two‐year college located in Paducah, KY—about halfway between St. Louis, MO and Nashville, TN
Enroll approximately 9,000 students/year
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WKCTC has been named a finalist for the Aspen Institute Prize for community college excellence every year since 2011
Most recently, WKCTC was named a finalist with distinction
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The Aspen institute has recognized WKCTC in three areas:
1. Measuring Student Learning Outcomes2. No achievement gap for minority and low‐income students3. Retention and completion
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Despite our recognition, we had trouble articulating what we did to support completion/retention
We were recognized for a “culture of retention”…but what does this mean?
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We chose to form a Retention & Completion Council
1. The President made selections2. Even mix of faculty and staff3. Kept to 10 people4. Met monthly
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What did the committee do?
1. Identified all retention initiatives on campus
This process took approximately 2 monthsWE WROTE IT DOWN
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What did the committee do?
2. Reviewed retention data
Committee made a data request based on existing initiatives, hunches, or proposed initiatives. IE/IR offices ran data and developed reports
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What did the committee do?
3. Chose areas of focus/expansion based on our data
All of this was written, saved, and shared
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Initiatives Selected
The committee narrowed down to three initiatives based on data
The committee established goals and measurements and then wrote work plans
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The process seems simple and straight‐forward, but it paid off by assisting us in the development of detailed plans based on data
Here are two examples of the work this committee did.
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• Replaced paper early alert with
homemade electronic early alert in 2004
• In 2014 we replaced with an at‐risk report software package
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• To get faculty buy‐in to a new system,
we had to explain the value• To explain the value, we had to be
more responsive to at‐risk reports
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• Began by training faculty by academic
division• First training only focused on
how/when to raise alert flags or offer praise
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• Behind the scenes, a success coach was
responding to flags for a group of ~400 students
• Financial aid was also responding to flags for students with Title IV aid
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• Faculty use of the new system went
from approximately 10% to 60% with the new system
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• After seeing the success of the group
with the success coach, this was expanded to reach all students and their titles renamed to “Completion Coach”
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• There was now a formal response
system to at‐risk flags• Round 2 of faculty training was
refresher training on the software and explanation of the response system
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and Support• Faculty utilization reached 90%• The Retention Council set a goal of
100% faculty utilization by 2020• Academic Deans supported noting use
of reporting system in evaluations
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Initiative 1: At‐risk Reporting and SupportLessons Learned:• Train, train, train• Respond, respond, respond• Feedback & Evaluation• Write it down and share across campus
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Initiative 2: Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes• Shared advising model—faculty work
with current students, staff work with new/undecided students
• Developed student learning outcomes for advising, but no way to measure them
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Initiative 2: Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes• Developed an electronic, mandatory
student “pre‐advising” form to measure student knowledge of learning outcomes before the appointment
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Initiative 2: Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes• Developed an electronic, mandatory
student post‐advising checklist to measure student learning outcomes after the appointment
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Initiative 2: Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes• Developed an electronic advisor
evaluation of student learning during the advising session
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Initiative 2: Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes• Developed an evaluation to compare
pre/post advising session outcomes• Developed an evaluation to compare
advisor and student measurements of learning outcomes
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Initiative 2: Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes• Developed a response program to
improve advising based on the electronic evaluations from advisors and students
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Initiative 2: Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes• We wrote all of this down and made it
available to faculty and staff across campus
• Training is key
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