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List of all Retention Council Agendas & Minutes
Agenda & Minutes for October 2, 2002
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Agenda of the Retention Council
Bartlett Room 262 NH II 10:00 - Noon
| I. |
Announcements |
Horace Smith |
| II. |
Approval of Meeting Minutes for June 26, 2002 |
Horace Smith |
| III. |
No Housing Participation Study, Spring 2002 |
Anne Shelly, Bobbi Yonai |
| IV. |
Seniors 114+ Study Update |
Bobbi Yonai |
| V. |
Leavers Study: LOA for Spring 2002 |
Anne Shelly, Bobbi Yonai |
| Next Meeting: November 13, 2002 Bartlett Room 262 NH II |
Minutes of the Retention Council
In Attendance: Andrew Clark, Susan Donovan, James Duah-Agyeman, Theresa Fuller, Rosanna Grassi, Marlene Hall, Judy Hamilton, Dan Holliman, Sandy Hurd, David Kohr, JoAnn May, Kenneth Myles, Michael Olivette, Lena Rose Orlando, David Potter, Felicia Proud, Amie Redmond, Rebecca Reed-Kantrowicz, Hannah Richardson, Anne Shelly, Horace Smith, Eric Spina, Martha Sutter, Seth Tucker, Anastasia Urtz, Mike Wasylenko, Bobbi Yonai
I. Announcements
Horace Smith introduced Rebecca Reed-Kantrowicz, Director of the Office of Residence Life, as a new member of the Council and announced that Donald Saleh, Associate Vice President and Katryn Hansen, Assistant Dean of Architecture have been invited to join the Council.
Susan Donovan noted the discussion of Aos in the May Council meeting and recommended Aos for a future agenda topic.
Horace Smith announced the schedule for fall Council meetings. They are:
October - Data Analysis
November - Programming
December - Data Anlaysis
II. Analysis of Retention of Students not Participating in Spring 2002 Housing Lottery
- Barbara Yonai/Anne Shelly
Conclusion - Participation in the Spring housing lottery is not a good predictor for Leavers (see handout distributed on 10/2/02 for details)
III. Update of seniors with 114+ credits who have not graduated
- Barbara Yonai
Handout distributed at 10/2 meeting and mailed to all members not attending.
Yonai - Only three schools and colleges followed up with the identified students and submitted information on these students. Are these data of interest and should they continue to be collected?
Council's consensus is that the data should continue to be collected and distributed.
Donovan - Suggested getting update on UC's "unfinished business" program.
Duah-Agyeman - Requested demographic breakdown of 114+ students.
Yonai - Pointed out a very little extra effort will render improved graduation rate - every 25 students based on a cohort of 2,500 will increase graduation rate by 1%.
Council agreed that data requests will be made with reasonable lead time and that the CRS should continue to remind the schools and colleges of the request.
May - Requested 114+ information on Opportunity Students.
IV. Analysis of students Requesting a Leave of Absence (LOA) between September and December 2001 - Anne Shelly/ Barbara Yonai
Handout distributed at 10/2 meeting and mailed to all members not attending.
Donovan - Questioned the impact of SummerStart on Table 5 of the handout.
Smith/May - Indicated SummerStart can examine the data on this.
Spina - Requested details about students' perception of the lack of "challenge" at Syracuse.
Shelly - Usually complaints about Lower Division A&S Courses - Too similar to high school.
Orlando - Complaints about "too Greek" usually means complaint about party atmosphere.
Shelly - Writing #1courses for too easy complaints - sometimes PSY 205. Math, science, foreign language more complaints about too much reading and communication skills of faculty and TAs.
Smith - We should study a sample of students actually in these courses.
Richardson - How do we act on dissatisfied high achievers without creating problems with lower achievers?
Yonai - Cautioned that these are students perceptions, we should actually check course patterns.
Potter - Need more data in these courses than what is provided in this report.
Spina - Recommends Founders/Chancellor Scholars as target group for focused study.
Shelly - Party atmosphere is repeated by students over and over.
Olivette - Are we going to spend a lot of effort for the little gain. So many confounding variables. Doubts we will ever understand the deep reasons for departure.
Shelly - We can take some of this at face value and we can do something. For instance, how do we link students with common interests who have heretofore been unable to do so themselves?
Hall - Was personal safety issues and incidents ever discussed with Public Safety?
Shelly - Students have not reported Public Safety as someone they talk to.
Hurd - Is random housing changing any of these perceptions about housing?
Shelly - May have impact on perception of institutional segregation but students did perceive lack of connection to upper-classmates they are now housed with.
Wasylenko - These experiences are seen at many institutions. Recommends working to connect kids at the front end rather than those who've left.
Reed-Kantrowicz - Indicated 1st years still clustering due to being last in lottery.
Donovan - Really should change the lottery so freshman get 1st choice not last so they have better accommodations.
Potter - Questioned cost of models that prioritize freshman.
Donovan - Recommends re-examining housing policies in light of experiene since implementation of lottery system.
Grassi - Noted many left within first weeks of school.
Shelly - Agreed caveats raised by members address some of the causes, but two years of data suggest a pattern of high achievers who feel unchallenged and disconnected.
III. Remaining Fall Meeting Schedule:
November 13, 2002, Bartlett Room 262 NH II
December 4, 2002, Bartlett Room 262 NHII
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