Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange

1700 Asp Ave.
Norman, OK 73072

Phone: 405-325-2158
Fax: 405-325-7309
csrde@ou.edu

Beyond the First Year Retention: The Graduation Initiative

presented by Clint Rodenfels, University of Texas-San Antonio

Date of webinar: July 14, 2010

*Materials for this webinar are not currently available.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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Abstract

The University of Texas at San Antonio has spent the last twelve years developing a highly effective suite of retention programs targeting freshmen and sophomores. To extend the reach of these student success programs, the Graduation Initiative (GI) was created in 2007. Since then, the following has been accomplished: 1. GI Analysts assigned to specific colleges researched barriers to graduation and, along with college stakeholders, developed Graduation Improvement Plans specifically tailored to the barriers discovered. College staff, faculty, and GI analysts have worked together at implementing actions from these plans. 2. Staff of the Initiative also developed an institution-wide Graduation Improvement Plan, delivered to the Provost in July, 2008. The institutional plan incorporates the barriers shared across the colleges, as well as barriers only addressable at the institutional level. 3. In the Late Intervention program, GI Analysts have worked with seniors overdue for their four-year graduation, completing tailored progress plans with them and following their semester progress to five or six-year graduation. Program participants have graduated at significantly higher rates than similar non-participants. Additional student program services include outreach to rising sophomores, fiscal and time management training, and an effort to re-enroll stop-out students so they can complete their undergraduate degrees.

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