Where
Room 8402Winter Professional Development Day: Student Retention
Overview
The goal of the day is to articulate how everyone on campus can contribute to increasing retention. We will provide a roadmap for how retention gains can be leveraged from college-wide programs to individual actions of staff, administrators and faculty.
Keynote Speaker
Brenda Williams, PhD, Senior Associate Consultant, Noel Levitz
Dr. Williams will share her extensive experience in helping schools promote retention and will articulate how efforts from everyone on campus - staff, administrators and faculty - are all needed to improve retention.
With more than 35 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Brenda Williams helps campuses strengthen student retention planning, academic instruction, academic support services, and the role of faculty in student retention and success. Dr. Williams has consulted with a number of four-year and two-year institutions. At Utah State, she helped the campus raise its first-year retention rate from 66 to 75 percent in three years, with retention of high ability students rising from 80 to 96 percent.
Workshops include
Classified Staff Forum
What can you do to play a bigger role in decision making on campus
This forum will focus on how classified staff can implement ideas presented by the keynote speaker. In addition, a conversation will be held about how classified staff can play a bigger role in decision making regarding retention issues.
How Faculty Can Increase Productive Persistence Among Students In Their classes
Racheal Beattie, PhD, Carnegie Foundation
Dr. Beattie's talk will focus on all four aspects of Productive Persistence: students' beliefs that they are capable of doing their coursework, students' feelings that they belong in the class and college, students' feelings about whether the course has value and is relevant to them, and students' efficacy beliefs about whether they have the skills to succeed in the course. Her talk will provide instructions about classroom routines/practices that promote productive persistence.
Student Panel: Engaging the Student Voice on Retention
A panel of students will share their perspectives on retention. They will share their thoughts about why they think students drop courses or why they persist in courses. Students will also discuss factors and efforts by staff that promote a sense of belongingness and a desire to continue their education at Foothill.
Working Lunch
Using Current Campus Resources to Increase Student Retention in Your Classroom - Next Quarter, or Next Week
Many Foothill faculty, staff and administrators are ready to dig in and tackle the campus goal of increasing student retention, and are asking for concrete steps they may implement immediately. The great news is, we already have a number of evidence-based resources in place on campus that are known to be tried and true - but Foothill community members don't know about them, or need help integrating them into their classes. In this workshop, we'll introduce (or reacquaint) faculty, staff and administrators with resources that work, and the faculty and staff who can help you make them happen in your online and/or face-to-face classrooms."
The goal of the day is to articulate how everyone on campus can contribute to increasing retention. We will provide a roadmap for how retention gains can be leveraged from college-wide programs to individual actions of staff, administrators and faculty.
Keynote Speaker
Brenda Williams, PhD, Senior Associate Consultant, Noel Levitz
Dr. Williams will share her extensive experience in helping schools promote retention and will articulate how efforts from everyone on campus - staff, administrators and faculty - are all needed to improve retention.
With more than 35 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Brenda Williams helps campuses strengthen student retention planning, academic instruction, academic support services, and the role of faculty in student retention and success. Dr. Williams has consulted with a number of four-year and two-year institutions. At Utah State, she helped the campus raise its first-year retention rate from 66 to 75 percent in three years, with retention of high ability students rising from 80 to 96 percent.
Workshops include
Classified Staff Forum
What can you do to play a bigger role in decision making on campus
This forum will focus on how classified staff can implement ideas presented by the keynote speaker. In addition, a conversation will be held about how classified staff can play a bigger role in decision making regarding retention issues.
How Faculty Can Increase Productive Persistence Among Students In Their classes
Racheal Beattie, PhD, Carnegie Foundation
Dr. Beattie's talk will focus on all four aspects of Productive Persistence: students' beliefs that they are capable of doing their coursework, students' feelings that they belong in the class and college, students' feelings about whether the course has value and is relevant to them, and students' efficacy beliefs about whether they have the skills to succeed in the course. Her talk will provide instructions about classroom routines/practices that promote productive persistence.
Student Panel: Engaging the Student Voice on Retention
A panel of students will share their perspectives on retention. They will share their thoughts about why they think students drop courses or why they persist in courses. Students will also discuss factors and efforts by staff that promote a sense of belongingness and a desire to continue their education at Foothill.
Working Lunch
Using Current Campus Resources to Increase Student Retention in Your Classroom - Next Quarter, or Next Week
Many Foothill faculty, staff and administrators are ready to dig in and tackle the campus goal of increasing student retention, and are asking for concrete steps they may implement immediately. The great news is, we already have a number of evidence-based resources in place on campus that are known to be tried and true - but Foothill community members don't know about them, or need help integrating them into their classes. In this workshop, we'll introduce (or reacquaint) faculty, staff and administrators with resources that work, and the faculty and staff who can help you make them happen in your online and/or face-to-face classrooms."