Dimensions of Retention

EnrollStudents

Likely to persist

Knowwhy students

leave

Interveneto preventattrition

Deliverdesired

experiences

Reframethe significance

of attrition

Organizeto address

retention issues

Trackat risk

students

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Retention Dimensions

Enroll StudentsLikely to Persist

• Screening questionnaire online for potential students

• Student navigators to give initial information and answer questions to assist students to chose the best delivery.

Know Why Students Leave• Review statistics from 2009

forward• Identify and classify reasons for

attrition• Engage faculty and staff in

identifying what factors we can influence and which ones we cannot

Intervene to PreventAttrition

• Refer students to college services such as student life for counseling

• Create an IA mentoring role• Send support to clinical site for up

to 9 hours of 1:1 • Create a Student Advisor Position

Deliver Desired Experiences• Discuss student feedback survey results with

the instructor • Inservices for instructional staff to ensure

consistency of skill instruction• Encourage all instructional staff to take ISW.• Inservice component to staff meetings• Classroom and lab visits to observe teaching• Design and deliver high impact learning

experiences

Reframe Significance of Attrition• Inservice staff on funding based on FLE• Brainstorm reasons for attrition at staff

meeting• Review course withdrawal stats for cause

of withdrawal• Make plans to decrease attrition in highest

withdrawal areas over which we have influence

• Set a goal for attrition level based on provincial and national averages

Organize to Address Retention Issues• Work with FHCS on a faculty

wide plan• Review past strategies• Create a time line for past,

present and future strategies

Track at Risk Students• Track attendance for mandatory Lab

and Clinical Practicum• Awareness of students that have

rewritten exams two times• Meet with students and use LIPs in a

constructive way• Report concerns to program Chair• Refer students to IA Mentor or Student

Advisor

Promise Only What We Can Deliver• Student navigator to ensure

students know the program requirements and prerequisites and requisites

• Discussion re PIC and process; redesign PIC waiver

• Transparency regarding locations of Clinical Practicums

References

• Eight Dimensions of Retention 2014 Maguire Associates. www.magnapubs.com/about-us/press-releases/121410