2013 Spring Forum on Retention Addressing Shifting Demographics : Fostering Student Success

1. 2013 Spring Forum on RetentionAddressing Shifting Demographics: Fostering Student Success Karla Sanders & Kimberlie Moock Co-chairs, Committee on Retention Efforts (CORE)

2. Agenda • Eastern’s Retention and Graduation Rates • CORE Initiatives • Breakout Discussions • Faculty Sharing: Practices for Student Achievement & Development • Strengthening the Advisee/Mentee Connection • Making Individual Connections: Strategies for Support Staff

3. What is CORE? • Committee on Retention Efforts • Joint committee of academic and student affairs • Chaired by Karla Sanders, Center for Academic Support & Assessment, & Kimberlie Moock, New Student Programs • Charged by V.P. Lord & V.P. Nadler in Spring 2006

4. National Graduation & Retention Rates—ACT Data File, 2012

5. National Benchmarks & EIU *Source: ACT Institutional Data File, 2012 ** Defined as mean entering cohort ACT of 18-24 +For Fall 2005 entering class

8. IL Publics by Selectivity

9. Presidential Goals 85% Retention 79% 69.3% 70% 59% Graduation 43.9%

10. Key Performance Indicators Retention Time to Degree Graduation

11. CORE Initiatives—Continuing Students • Email Reminders about Registration • Unregistered List to Departments • Survey (not registered at 10th day) • FA11-SP12, 496/9657 – 5% • 24.4% holds • SP12-FA12, 585/8777 - 7% • 25.6% holds • FA12-SP13, 494/8975 - 6% • 34.6% holds

12. FA12 Continuing Students Survey Why have you not yet registered for classes? • 36.2% hold • 20.69% not seen advisor to receive pin • 15.5% not gotten around to it • 6.9% financial aid/insufficient funds • 20.69% other reason Why do you not intend to register? • 26.67% transferring to a community college • 13.3% transferring to a 4-year institution • 13.3% family issues that prevent attending • 8.89% going to work • 6.67% cannot afford it • 31.1% other reason

13. CORE Initiatives—Early Alert Early Alert System • Began in FA11 • ITS developed to work with PAWS

14. CORE Initiatives—Retention Plan • Noel Levitz Recommendation • History • Data • Context • Inniatitives • Living Document • http://castle.eiu.edu/~core/

15. Strategic Enrollment Planning Retention Strategies • Connecting Recruitment to Retention • Pre-Arrival Initiatives • Financial Support

16. Shifting Demographics • 78% of our students rely on financial aid 6% • 48.65% of our students are first-generation 7.65% • 45.8% of the entering class are transfer students 6.8% • 21.7% of our students are an ethnic minority 8% • 20% of the entering freshman class were admitted through a special admission program 11%

17. Breakout Sessions • Faculty Sharing: Practices for Student Achievement & Development • Strengthening the Advisee/Mentee Connection • Making Individual Connections: Strategies for Support Staff

18. Sources • Graduation Rates: National Center for Education Statistics, http://nces.ed.gov/ • National Retention and Graduation Benchmarks & Selectivity: ACT Institutional Data File, http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/retain_2010.pdf • EIU Retention and Graduation Rates: Planning and Institutional Studies, http://castle.eiu.edu/~planning/