Student Engagement & Retention Workshop

@ Cape Fear Community College Percell W. Hobbs

Interim Coordinator of Academic Advisors

Central Piedmont Community CollegeJune 17, 2008

Learn the college

Getting involve with student activities

Encourage and support each other

Cheerleaders

Advocators

Promote learning

Coaches

Cheerleaders

Recognize self

Cultivate Learning

Coaches

Cheerleaders

Produce critical thinkers Managers of their educational

ambitions

Coaches

Cheerleaders

Compose information with simplicity so that students can grasp it easier.

Relieve frustrated students who place into developmental courses and/or attending a community college.

“Utilize vocabulary that relates to students’ cultural capital in order to assist them in maneuvering through the system” (30).

Demonstrate terminology:CatalogScheduleSyllabusRegister

Carrie M Bourdon & Rozana Carducci. “What works in the Community Colleges: A Synthesis of the Literature on Best Practices.” University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education, Higher Education and Organizational Change Division (December 2002).