Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange

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Norman, OK 73072

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Monitoring Attendance Produces Results: First-Year Student Success Team’s Collaborative Venture
presented by Vivia Fowler, Wesleyan College

Date of webinar: June 11, 2008

*Materials for this webinar are not currently available.

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Abstract

The success of Columbia College's First-Year Student Success Team (FYSST) hinges on the cooperation of faculty and staff from Student Affairs and Academic Affairs. To ensure that every first-year student can be as successful as she wants to be, FYSST meets every other week to monitor the progress of first-year students, focusing particularly on attendance in first-year courses. The team depends on input and intervention from peer mentors such as Orientation Leaders, Resident Academic Advisors, and Student Engagement Mentors; Faculty Advisors; and selected faculty who teach typical first-year classes.

Envisioned to address the needs of first-time, first-year students, the program simultaneously benefits transfer students who enroll in entry-level courses and first-year seminars. The program has been credited with increasing fall-to-spring persistence of students--especially those who struggled academically during their first semester--and increasing the fall-to-fall persistence of first-year students. The purpose of this presentation is to outline the procedures and interventions of the team's attendance monitoring initiative and describe the results of our efforts.

The Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange at the University of Oklahoma is a consortium of two-year and four-year institutions dedicated to achieving the highest levels of student success through collaboratively sharing data, knowledge, and innovation.

CSRDE is a sponsored activity of the Center for Institutional Data Exchange and Analysis at