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List of all Retention Council Agendas & Minutes
Agenda & Minutes for June 4, 2003
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Agenda of the Retention Council
Faculty Center 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Announcements |
Horace Smith |
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Approval of the May minutes |
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Attrition and Graduation Report |
Bobbi Yonai |
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Study Update on Student Group, Ethnicity Unspecified |
Anne Shelly, Bobbi Yonai, Tim Wasserman |
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Other Business |
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| Next 3 Meeting dates: October 8, 2003, November 5, 2003, and December 3, 2003, Bartlett Room 262 NH II |
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Minutes of the Retention Council
In Attendance: Maureen Breed, Andrew Clark, James Duah-Agyeman, Rosanna Grassi, Judy Hamilton, Sandra Hurd, Dave Kohr, JoAnn May, Ken Miles, Helen Murray, Jane Neuburger, Lena Rose Orlando, Michael Olivette, David Potter, Amie Redmond, Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, Hanna Richardson, Donald Saleh, Anne Shelly, Steve Simon, Horace Smith, Martha Sutter, Seth Tucker, Anastasia Urtz, Michael Wasylenko, Tim Wasserman, Barbara Yonai
I. Announcements
Minutes form the May 7, 2003 Council Meeting were approved with corrections.
Saleh - Expects to have retention/attrition data for graduate students next academic year.
Smith - Announced reports from the Office of Disability Services (ODS), SSUI, Honors, and SummerStart next academic year.
II. Presentation of Preliminary Attrition/graduation report for fall 2002
Barbara Yonai presented the attrition and graduation data from Fall 2002 (Complete reports will be available later in the summer).
Saleh - Does the first-year dropout rate by school or college really tell us anything?
Neuburger - Might Arts and Sciences rate be related to a higher percentage of Undecideds?
Grassi - Arts and Sciences and VPA are also the largest colleges and would have correspondingly higher numbers.
Duah-Agyeman - Requests better attrition analysis of minorities that are not in special populations (e.g. CSTEP, HEOP).
Hamilton - Are the high achieving leavers a significant percentage of all high achievers?
Yonai - No, but they are a significant part of those that do leave.
III. Presented a study of students that indicate their ethnicity as "unspecified."
Grassi - Does the inception of Peoplesoft which corresponds with the jump in "unspecified" students have an impact? Are coders influencing decisions? Can we look back?
Yonai - there are multiple self-reported points to identify ethnicity. Even looking back would not be consistent necessarily.
Shelly - Do we want to pursue a multi-racial option at all our points of selection?
Council - Overwhelmingly favors pursuing a multi-racial option.
Shelly - Can we go back and look at current Unspecifieds?
Grassi - Suggests pulling 500 admissions applications from "unspecified" students and see of they selected multiple categories.
Yonai - We should also track non-residential aliens in a separate category.
Breed - If we are going to explore creating a multi-racial category we should look at this more broadly to study the best way to capture these data. Urges caution in pulling out non-resident aliens so they are not discounted as an important sub-population.
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