The Problem Of University Retention Rates

Over the last few years, Texas State University-San Marcos has seen a significant increase in the number students applying and being admitted to the university. According to Hendricks (2010), from the fall of 2009 to the fall of 2010, the campus saw a 5.9% increase in the number of students attending the university. In the fall of 2010, the campus reached a new record enrollment of 32,586 students; Out of those, 3,930 were incoming freshman. A vast majority of freshmen and sophomores experience their

one of us to discuss our project and potentially identify plausible solutions to the problem. Dr. Richardson promptly responded to our email, and kindly agreed to meet with us for an interview (See Appendix 3 for interview questions). Our team wanted to get the perspectives of other universities that have done studies on the effects of insufficient counseling services. Gathering data from other universities studies will allow us to compare our findings with theirs to identify what did or did

Many colleges and universities throughout the United States and several other countries face a common problem. Student retention is a growing problem across the nation for all ethnic groups and all ages. Each individual who chooses to drop out of school has their own personal reasons as to why they do. However, many drops out can be completely avoided. When students drop out they are not clearly thinking about how it’s going to affect their future, the future of their children and even grandchildren

Brian Importance of the Problem Attention to student retention and success remains a significant priority among universities across the globe. Trends to support academic success programs among freshman that increase second year persistence and timely graduation at postsecondary institutions continue to be adopted. As more states implement funding based funding, campuses have a more targeted focus and have increased attention on student retention and completion rates. The increase in accountability

This is a review of the dissertation A Comparative Study of Traditional and Nontraditional Characteristics Predicting Retention among First Time in College Students researched by C. Joseph (2015). This dissertation looks closely at the retention and completion of first time college students and their persistence to obtain their educational goals. The dissertation also looks at programs and services that support and assist students’ needs and that reduce the risk of stopping-out or dropping-out of

currently a student at Feather River College and have, so far, been thoroughly enjoying my educational experience here. However, it has come to my attention that the retention rate at our college is only 52 percent which is low compared to other community colleges in the surrounding area. Butte College, for example, has a retention rate of 70 percent with nearly nine times the annual enrollment of Feather River College. I believe that the high percentage of students who do not return to Feather River

successfully. o She knows that if the graduation rate and retention are not improved, the board will have a hard time approving budget requests for a program that they see as struggling. • A large number of students are unprepared academically for entry into college. As a result, the majority of students are in remedial courses instead of their core curriculum “method” courses. This causes enrollment in the core

magic word that we constantly hear amongst every employee at this institution. Analytics is using data to make decisions such as funding, staffing, and various resources. Analytics helps us to answer the question of “why we do what we do”. The problems leading up to the

INTRODUCTION Intense competition has made student attrition a concern for colleges and universities. Attrition is costly and generates considerable concerns for educational institutions (Tinto, 1993). This is especially true for small schools that do not have huge endowments, and must depend upon tuition and fees to support programming. The loss of students has a detrimental impact upon budgeting as the costs involved in recruiting new students is definitely higher than the cost to retain existing

As the Hispanic population in the United States grew over the last ten years, colleges experienced increased enrollments of the same. As with any significant enrollment increase, colleges attempted to find ways to increase student retention rates, especially that of minorities. Mercy College is one institution that experienced significant growth in their Hispanic student enrollment, along with it success in retaining this group of students (Stern, 2010). In part, their success was credited to