Student retention
Student retention is easy - you just have to work at it! It is a must to give each individual student time and attention by responding to their questions and needs. It is crucial to monitor each student's progress (or lack of) and then to properly reach out to those students who might be struggling. This can be accomplished by a phone call, email, chat session, person meeting, etc. However, we must also realize that this is college and that we can't force someone to do well or to try. But ,,, we must encourage them! We can "hold their hand" so to speak but we can't write for them, read for them or speak for them. But ,,, we must encourage them!
student retention is the back bone of our future make sure that we use all method possible and stay the course of insuring the importance of their succes.
student retention is very important and be worked on daily in a basis maintaing a postive role to be finish what was started
student retention is big part of our sucess we just need to encourage daily
Hi Kathleen,
You are right that many student issues are bigger than we are able to help with. We need to be supportive and also know when we have done all that we can and do a referral. At that point students can get help either through the college or outside of the college setting to assist them with coping this life impacting issues.
Gary
Hi Scott,
You make a great point about encouraging students. We need to and must continue to do it over and over but we can only encourage as much as the students will receive the message. Your last point is well made. They have to take responsibility along the way for their destiny for it is they who will live it, not you. This is where maturity comes in and for some students that is a hard concept to understand.
Gary
I agree that encouragement and hand holding go a long way toward retention, but sometimes things are just too far beyond the grasp of the faculty or administration. I've seen lots of students who have life issues that are too far reaching. I can hand hold all I want and encourage them to attend class regularly, but sometimes the problems need more than a band-aid.
