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Northern College Student Retention & Success Strategies. Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology Timmins, Ontario. Mary-Anne Martin Coordinator / Professor Tina Thibault-Lambert Professor. Northern College. Fast facts (Fall 2004) 4 main campuses students - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Northern CollegeStudent Retention & Success Strategies
Northern College of Applied Arts and TechnologyTimmins, Ontario
Mary-Anne Martin– Coordinator / Professor
Tina Thibault-Lambert– Professor
Northern College
Fast facts (Fall 2004)– 4 main campuses – students
1,276 full-time 7,298 part-time
– faculty 80 full time 120 part-time
– Communities – Graduates
Northern College
Michael Hill, President Vision-Mission Statement
– Vision: A Northern Educational Community Network– Mission: To ensure accessible, quality educational
experiences that meet the unique needs of our communities.
– Motto: Transforming your future.
Northern College
Commitment:
– Supporting, nurturing and celebrating learners’ and employees’ contributions and accomplishments.
– Maintaining a caring, friendly atmosphere.
Attrition Rates *
Fall 1999 9.95%Fall 2000 9.8%
Fall 2001 2.65%
Fall 2002 2.2%
Fall 2003 2.1%
Fall 2004 0.7%* Based on November audits
Current Student Success Strategies
Student Success Centre Study skills workshops Peer tutors / Community tutors Faculty-lead tutorial sessions Study group formation Consult with Centre for Students with DisAbilities Individual learning plans New initiatives for fall 2005
The Student Success Centre (SSC)
Created as a result of our new vision-mission Created to address unacceptably high drop out
rate among first semester students Began programs and services September 2001 Reduced our attrition rate to well below the
provincial average. Assisted students to realize their academic goals
Student Success Centre
Location
Staff
Learning Resource Centre
Student Success Centre
Student Success Centre
Student Success Centre
“When You Succeed, We Succeed”
SSC PHILOSOPHY
Every student can be a better student Every student has his/her own definition of
success We help students in whatever way we can We make referrals to other college and
community services
Faculty in the SSC The SSC is staffed by faculty for 20 to 35
hours/week as part of their workload Students can ‘drop-in’ or make an
appointment to speak with faculty
Our function is two-fold– Content resource (tutoring and mentoring)– Student success resource
PERIOD MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
08:30 1
09:20 Shirley
Deleurant Liz Hughes
Trish Gibson
Lana Guscott 09:30 2
10:20 Des
Quinn Des Quinn Trish Gibson
Neal McNair
Des Quinn Candice Kosick 10:30
3 11:20
Jim Andrews
Angie Giguere
(Student Liaison)
Des Quinn
11:30 4
12:20 Neal McNair Candice
Kosick Mary Ann
Martin
12:30 5
01:20 Tina Lambert Jim
Andrews
Angie Giguere (Student Liaison)
Tina Lambert 01:30 6
02:20 Neal McNair Student
Development Liz
Hughes
Angie Giguere (Student Liaison)
Sue McGirl 02:30 7
03:20 Neal McNair
Sue McGirl
03:30 8
04:20
04:30 9
05:20
05:30 10
06:20
FALL 2003
STUDENT SUCCESS CENTRE
STAFF SCHEDULE
SSC - Summary
The Student Success Centre is a student, faculty, and support staff-driven initiative that is fully endorsed and supported by our administration.
Study Skills Workshops
Orientation workshop– Study and test taking skills– Time management and anxiety management– Introduction to and tour of the SSC and Northern
College
Study Skills Workshops
Test skills seminars– test / exam taking strategies offered twice each
semester Tutor seminars
– Introduces nature/scope of tutoring position – Offers tutoring/teaching strategies training
Tutoring
Peer tutoring services Community tutoring services
Tutoring Statistics
Fall and Winter semesters (2003-2004)– 185 tutorees and 75 tutors
Fall 2004– 106 students requested tutors– 96 assigned tutors
Winter 2005– All students who requested tutoring were
assigned tutors
New Initiatives
Summer 2005– Math tutoring
Fall 2005– AccuPlacer
Faculty-lead tutorials
Faculty-lead math tutorials in technology (on SWF)
Fall 2005– Faculty-lead remediation
Individual Learning Plan
Initiated by coordinators Student Plan 14 – 29 – 44 Learning Plan for at-risk students
Final Thought
“In the future, the new illiterate will be the person who has not learned how to learn.” (Anonymous)
We must do all we can to help students to become successful learners.