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Roundtable Discussions on Student Retention Strategies in Higher Education:
New York Edition

Agenda

Dates
Thursday, June 29, 2006

Location
Bronx
Community
College

Roscoe Brown
Student Center

Rooms 207/208

Time
8:00am—1:00pm

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PDF Registration

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Description

At a point in its history where HETS is looking for a strategic long-run direction, it continues offering services to its member institutions, at the same time. In this occasion, HETS has decided to focus on one the major challenge impacting its members: student retention rates. Based on research, colleges and universities should have administrative policies and resources (academic, social, and cultural) geared toward access, retention, and attainment. These policies and resources are expected to be consistent with their mission and market niche. Nowadays, it is vital to deal with educational attainment rates at public and private four-year colleges and community colleges, in order to help students succeed in their college education, particularly when these rates vary considerably with student background characteristics.

Aware of the existing major concerns for college student retention, the HETS Consortium invites New York institutions to be part of the Roundtable Discussions on Student Retention in Higher Education: New York Edition. This event will take place on:

Purpose: The purpose of this event is to discuss student retention strategies and initiatives developed and implemented at HETS member institutions in New York, at the same time participants have an opportunity to network with colleagues from this area at other institutions. Finally, this event will lead to the compilation of a complete document on Best Practices on Student Retention in Higher Education, based on these roundtable discussions.

Specific Objectives

Enumerate student retention strategies (srs)at each institution
Contrast SRS among participating institutions
Identify common weaknesses and possible solutions
Identify educational leaders that can be voluntarily engaged with this initiative in order to materialize the recommendations obtained at this event.
Publish a compilation of the HETS Members´ SRS best practices

Registration:

Registration is Free of charge. We are only requesting participants to fill in the registration form, and sending it to us either online or by fax (printing the downloadable PDF document). Spaces are limited to up to 5 participants per HETS member institution.

Specially design for:

Dean of Students
Student Retention Managers
Student Support Services Staff
Student Counselors
Title V Directors
Grant Managers
Institutional Researchers
External Resources
Strategic Planning specialists
Student Support Decision Makers