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List of all Retention Council Agendas & Minutes
Agenda & Minutes for November 5, 2003
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Agenda of the Retention Council
Bartlett Room- Newhouse II 10:00-12:00 p.m.
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Announcements |
Anne Shelly |
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Approval of October 8th meeting minutes |
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Student SUccess Initiative |
Stephanie Reynolds, Director, SSUI |
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What have we accomplished?
What are we learning?*
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Tim Wasserman, Assistant Director, CSTL |
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Other Business |
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| * We are particularly pleased to share the development of the propensity study, which addresses issues of comparison groups and tracking attrition/persistence. |
| Next Meeting: December 3, 2003 Bartlett Room 262 NH II |
Minutes of the Retention Council
In Attendance: Maureen Breed, Ronald R. Cavanagh, Andrew Clark, James Duah-Agyeman, Rosanna Grassi, Judy Hamilton, Sandra Hurd, Mariana Lebron, JoAnn May, Ken Miles, Jane Neuburger, Lena Rose Orlando, Michael Olivette, David Potter, Felicia Proud, Amie Redmond, Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, Stephanie Reynolds, Hanna Richardson, Donald Saleh, Anne Shelly, Steve Simon, Martha Sutter, Seth Tucker, Anastasia Urtz, Tim Wasserman, Barbara Yonai
I. Announcements
Minutes from the October 8, 2003 Council Meeting were designated for revision.
II. Presentation of the Student Success Initiative (SSUI) and its Assessment Results - What have We Accomplished? What Are We Learning?
A presentation on the Student SUccess Initiative, (SSUI), formerly the Syracuse Academic Improvement Program (SAIP) was given by Stephanie Reynolds, the Director, and Tim Wasserman, the Assistant Director of the Center for Support of Teaching and Learning.
SSUI is a residential learning community focused on improving student academic performance. The presentation detailed the program's development over the past 10 years. Ms. Reynolds presented a compilation of the program's historical progression including the changes that have occurred based on annual assessment and evaluation. Mr. Wasserman presented the SSUI Propensity Study, which detailed how and to what extent SSUI impacts student attrition/retention rates and discussed the pros and cons of the model, what refinements are likely in the future, and how the model might be applied more generally to retention research.
May - A Large number of SSUI students are under-represented students and have at least a 2.5 GPA. Have you analyzed why they come? Also, Many students are taking out the maximum allowed loan amount to attend. Have you examined any long-term financial impact given the expanded eligibility criteria?
Reynolds - Students are examined academically and financially to insure an appropriate fit to SSUI.
Richardson - Have you considered the impact of unsuccessful IUTs?
Shelly/Yonai - Have focused on issues students identify - IUT is a very small percentage.
Yonai - Might consider adding IUT as a success indicator in program outcomes as well as a retention indicator in the future.
Grassi - Can we identify students in the 5th Quintile for intervention?
Wasserman - Yes.
Cavanagh - Does the distribution of ethnicity within the program population (predominately students of color) create an environment where students from other groups are uncomfortable given that SSUI cites "comfortability" as an important feature for students of color? This is particularly important given its potential impact on enrollment and the indications that we are getting that we may lose our price arrangement with SUCE.
Richardson - SSUI students will not take summer courses without the discounted price. It is difficult to see how SUCE can be losing enrollments.
Duah-Agyeman - Do we have data that minorities are " comfortable" with the program or is that based upon the large percentage of minorities that attend.
Shelly - Both are true.
Grassi - Can we use modeling like this study to predict drop-outs in general?
Wasserman - this is being discussed.
Potter - Recommends putting this information in a tight, convincing package for faculty.
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