Sophomore ““““Slump” to Sophomore “Jump!” · Statistics:* Nationally, only 70% of...
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Making Connections:
A Retention Plan
for
Second-Year Students
Sophomore ““““Slump” Slump” Slump” Slump” to
Sophomore “Jump!”“Jump!”“Jump!”“Jump!”
Statistics:*
� Nationally, only 70% of freshmen return to start
their second year of college.
� Of that group, 83% move forward to their junior
year, while 17% drop out only to enter a bleak
job market.
* Sanborne, L. (2011, Mar 16). Raising completion and graduation rates: 2 clues for action beyond the first year.
Retrieved from http://blog.noellevitz.com
Why do students leave?
� Financial Difficulties
� Lack of focus (undecided major/minor)
� Boredom/apathy
� Lack of Social Integration and Involvement
� Poor Academic Performance despite remedial
coursework in their Freshman Year
� Personal/health issues
� Feelings of inadequacy
- students may feel “invisible” on campus
- fewer programs than during the Freshman Year
- lack of connections with faculty
What positively affects student success?
✏✏✏✏ ENGAGEMENT:1. Interaction with faculty
2. Use of student services
● advising: deciding on a major (setting goals)
-help students find their “purpose”
-help students feel that they CAN succeed!
- Nealy found that “advisement is the most important variable for second-year retention.”**
● assistance with internships/co-op/study abroad
● programming for second-year students
3. Participation in “intentional institutional interventions”
** Nealy, M. (2005). Key to student retention—strong advising (as cited in Hunter, M. S., Tobolowsky, B. F, & Gardner, J. N., and Associates (2010). Helping Sophomores Succeed – Understanding the Second-Year Experience, p. 40.
SVSU Second-Year Retention Plan:
Series of initiatives put in place to aid in retention:
● Schedule Review:
-Reviewed F’12 schedules: 2.0-2.49 cum. GPA
RESULTS: 55/205 needed a schedule adjustment (27%)
-Reviewed W’13 schedules:
RESULTS: 121/333 needed a schedule adjustment (36%)
-2.0-2.49 cum. GPA: 79/205 = 39% (23.7% of total)
-2.5-2.75 cum. GPA: 42/128 = 33% (12.6% of total)
Question: Why are so many students having scheduling difficulties?? What “aren’t we doing
right?” What could we be doing differently? Are WE (as an institution) in a “slump?”
● Email Outreach/Student Success Handouts
● “Congratulations on Surviving Your Freshman Year,” time to choose a major, etc.
● SAP notifications (+ notations in DATATEL –STAL notes for advisors)
● MAP-Works survey follow-up emails (Financial, Socio-emotional)
● Periodic emails informing of Reg. dates/Withdrawal dates, etc.
- Checklist of “How to Access the SVSU catalog” and the
components of a degree at SVSU
- “Your Second Year of College: Time to Explore. Time to Set
Goals!”
-Timeline for Success
● Cross-monitoring by Various Campus Constituents
● Second-Year Retention, Student Worker (MAPS, emails, data analysis)
● KCP Program Coordinator
● Assistant Director of Multicultural Student Services
● Resident Director of Second-Year Suites
� Establish Relationship� One-on-One meetings (establish
trust and communication)
� Daily communication through Facebook/V-Space/Twitter (updates on anything they need to know)
� Communication through phone/text/email
� Availability and priority to students for mentoring, counseling, advocacy, and support. ( Conduct board/Safe Space etc.)
� Use of student peer mentors
� Steps to Success
Communication and collaboration with Student Service Offices on campus
Referrals to offices and follow-through
Individual advising/help with registering/financial aid, etc.
Working closely with OMS/Academic Advising in giving complete services.
Individual Student Success Plans
� Study Goals (Mandatory Study Hours)
� Academic Goals
� Goals pertaining to personal barriers to success
● Coordination of efforts with:
- Office of Multicultural Student Services
- Center for Academic Achievement
- College of Education
- Health and Human Services workshops
to offer a yearly schedule of workshops
-allow time to market/advertise
-allow students time to plan
Additional Tools:
� FOCUS
Career Interest Inventory
- self-assessment
(values, personality, skills, etc.)
� MAP-Works:
Making Achievement Possible
- self-reporting survey four times per year
● Focus Survey Anecdotes:
- “Alyssa:” - Student was ready to transfer because we
don’t offer a major in Journalism ✏ became a Prof. Tech. writing major!
- “Stacey:” - Student wanted to be a stewardess (great
math/chemistry student - 3.66 cum. GPA!) ✏ OT, Management
- “Michelle:” Senior who had lost direction. Had tried Nursing, Education,
✏ Social Work
● MAPS Referrals & and other anecdotes:
“The Machine!”
– checked students’ W’13 schedules at least 4 times! (various registration
and payment deadlines) Emails, phone calls, etc.
- Eric: Found that he only had 9 credits for W’13: (Effie, me,
RD, RA, Roommate, to Eric’s cell phone!)
- Anthony: Referred by RA for “not attending class and
turning in work.” Invited him in to talk. Grandmother/ He’s
the oldest/pressure, etc.
- Parents: Mrs. M. (she checks his SVSU emails!) She came
in with him for an advising appointment to discuss his progress
and “next steps.”
Future Initiatives: ● Review of internal structure/procedures
● Second-Year Resource page on website
-academic information
-Information for parents
● Require all students to declare a major by end of freshman
year or by end of 3rd semester
-can predict when I look at a student’s transcript!
● Survey to non-returners asking “why” they left SVSU
● Second-Year Facebook page
New Motto: “One Student At a Time!”
Retention Data to Date:� 1235 Total Second-Year students enrolled F’12
-1131 Returning for W’13 (91.6%)
- 104 Not Returning for W’13 (8.5%)
� SAP Status (1127 of Total Second-Year Students enrolled F’12)
� 990 Students “OK” (88.6% of total second-year students)-34 “OK” students are not returning for W’13 (3.4%)
-956 “OK” students are returning for W’13 (96.6%)
� 42 Students on warning (3.8% of total second-year students)-12 students with SAP warning are not returning for W’13 (28.6%)
-30 students with SAP warning are returning for W’13 (71.4%)
� 31 Students on probation (2.8% of total second-year students)-All 31 SAP probation students are returning for W’13 (100%)
� 64 Students on SAP (lost Financial Aid) (5.7% of total second-year
students)-49 SAP students not returning for W’13 (76.6%)
-15 SAP students are returning for W’13 (23.4%)
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� 104 Students Not Returning for W’13 Semester:SVSU CUM. GPA
� GPA 0.0 – 1.99 = 61 Students
58.7% of non-returning students
4.9% of total second-year students
� GPA 2.0 – 2.49 = 16 Students
15.4% of non-returning students
1.3% of total second-year students (Note: Kim’s specific target group!)
� GPA 2.5 – 4.00 = 27 Students
26.0% of non-returning students
2.2% of total second-year students
� Cohort
� KCP = 20 Students (19.2% of non-returning students)
• SVSU GPA Below 2.0 = 18 KCP Students
• 33.3% Other Ethnicity
• 66.6% Multicultural
• SVSU GPA Above 2.0 = 2 KCP Students
• 100% Other Ethnicity
� ACT Composition Scores
� Scores 16-18: 45 Students (43.3% of non-returning students)
• Multicultural = 53.3%
• Other Ethnicity = 46.7%
� Scores 19-21: 26 Students (25.0% of non-returning students)
• Multicultural = 61.5%
• Other Ethnicity = 38.5%
� Scores 22-24: 20 Students (19.2% of non-returning students)
• Multicultural = 10.0%
• Other Ethnicity = 90.0%
� Scores 25+: 10 Students (9.6% of non-returning students)
• Multicultural = 40%
• Other Ethnicity = 60%
� Unreported Scores: 3 Students (International) (2.9% of non-returning
students)
� Commuter vs. Resident
� 60 Resident as of F’12 (57.7% of non-returning students)
• SVSU GPA Below 2.0 = 38 Students (63.3%)
• Multicultural = 65.8%
• Other Ethnicity = 34.2%
• SVSU GPA Above 2.0 = 22 Students (36.7%)
• Multicultural = 37.5%
• Other Ethnicity = 72.7%
� 44 Commuters as of F’12 (42.3% of non-returning students)
• SVSU GPA Below 2.0 = 23 Students (52.3%)
• Multicultural = 47.8%
• Other Ethnicity = 52.2%
• SVSU GPA Above 2.0 = 21 Students (47.7%)
• Multicultural = 14.3%
• Other Ethnicity = 85.7%
� Major: Largest Groups:
15 PNURS (14.4 % of non-returning students)
7 PRESW (6.7% of non-returning students)
� Breakdown by Academic College:
� Arts and Behavioral Sciences: 19 Students (18.3% of non-returning students)
• 5 PSYC, 1 ENG, 5 COMM, 5 CJ, 1 PSYC/ CJ, 1 THEA, 1 CRWRT
� College of Business and Mgt.: 15 Students (14.4% of non-returning students)
• 5 MGT, 4 MKT, 1 ACCT, 1 FIN, 1 INTBU/MKT, 1 PBUS, 1 GBUS, 1 PENGR
� Science, Engineering, Tech.: 18 Students (17.3% of non-returning students)
• 5 BIOL, 3 CIS, 1 PCHEM, 1 BIOL/CHEM, 3 ME, 2 PBIOL, 2 EE, 1 CIS/CJ
� Health and Human Services: 37 Students (35.5% of non-returning students)
• 5 ATHTR, 4 PREOT, 3 PREMED, 1 PBIOL/PRMED, 1 ES, 1 HSC, 15 Pre-
Nursing, 7 Pre-Social Work
� College of Education: 13 Students (12.5% of non-returning students)
• 4 HISTE, 3 PELED, 2 SPCED, 1 MATHE, 1 SPCED/ MATHE, 1 PEDUC, 1 INSCI
� 2 UNDEC (1.9% of non-returning students)
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