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List of all Retention Council Agendas & Minutes
Agenda & Minutes for February 13, 2002
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Agenda of the Retention Council
Penthouse, School of Management 10:00am - Noon
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Announcements |
Horace Smith |
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Introduction of New Members
Status of Retention Consultant Search
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Progress of the Academic Plan Relative to Retention Initiatives Dan Holliman |
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Honors Program Update |
Judy Hamilton |
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DocuShare - A Platform for Centralized Storage of Retention Project Updates |
Bobbi Yonai, Anne Shelly |
| V. |
Retention Council Agendas-Scheduling Unit Updates March - June 2002 |
Horace Smith, Anne Shelly |
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Other Business |
Horace Smith |
| Next Meeting: March 27, 2002 Bartlett Room, Newhouse II |
Minutes of the Retention Council
In Attendance: Maureen Breed, Ronald Cavanagh, Andrew Clark, Bea Gonzalez, Rosanna Grassi, Dan Holliman, Sandra Hurd, David Kohr, JoAnn May, Helen Murray, Lena Rose Orlando, David Potter, Hanna Richardson, Barbara Settel, Anne Shelly, Horace Smith, Martha Sutter, Seth Tucker, Anastasia Urtz, Chris Walsh, Michael Wasylenko, Barry Wells, Barbara Yonai
I. Announcements
Minutes from the 12/5/01 meeting were approved.
Chris Walsh and Susan Donovan were announced as new members of the Council.
The Council without dissent approved the minutes from the 10/31/01 meeting.
Cavanagh - The Vice Chancellor has agreed to hire a consultant. Under consideration are an Academic and a Student Affairs person. Considering bringing them in Fall 2002.
V.C. reiterated the emphasis she was placing on retention issues.
Holliman - reporting on Dean's Cabinet presentation and outcomes of their meeting.
The Dean's cabinet wants a two-prong strategy focusing on:
High performing students
And those traditionally at risk
-VC appointed 2 sub-committees
Chaired by David Rubin to look at IUTs and the issue of academic "rigor" and the ability of students to take courses across the curriculum. They want to examine entry issues… e.g. not satisfied with their placement…ability to sample courses ("i.e. blending.") How do you allow students in one area to sample courses in another?
Chaired by Cathy Newton to examine issues of academic rigor - honors… writing, etc.
The cabinet is also interested in mixing academic support into the student affairs experience.
Potter - Faculty involvement is important…proposes a "reaction" group comprised of faculty from each s/c to respond to the various proposals as they develop.
Richardson - faculty appropriately are focused locally and we need to bring these issues to their attention at an institutional level.
Hurd - Retention should be put on the agenda at faculty chairs meetings.
Holliman - We need to improve the information given to faculty about advisees. The perception might be communicated that tracking advisees is solely the province of faculty.
Richardson - We need a better connection between faculty and the administrative personnel that might intervene with students.
Hurd - What do we want faculty to do? Advising is very knowledge intensive (course changes, etc.). Is it relationship building, course advisement? How can we "carve" up the advising system better?
Grassi - Advising role changes over years. By Junior/Senior year it has become more mentoring that course advisement. A professional advising system wouldn't be able to support this. Faculty should be included on ACC sub-committee on advising.
II. Report from the Honors Program
Judy Hamilton and Barbara Yonai presented retention and graduate data on honors students, a comparison group and the university as a whole.
Hamilton - Asked the group to consider a proposal to eliminate first-year honors. Also expressed the concern of the honors faculty about meeting the needs of all admitted honors students.
Wasylenko - proposes channeling unchallenged student into higher education level
course. You need to have more honors section, necessarily.
Cavanagh - proposes admitting more 2nd semester but don't eliminate 1st semester honor admits.
Potter - Advocates a qualitative assessment of students perspectives of honors resources (seminars, staff support, etc.)
Hamilton - could only admit 25 students this semester out of 357 students that qualified based on GPA. She took students to 3.983.
Shelly/ Smith - Wants each unit to sign up for 20-25 minutes presentation on progress on retention related activities over the next 3 meetings by 2/20/02.
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