Karla Sanders & Kimberlie MoockCo-chairs, Committee on Retention Efforts

(CORE)

Eastern’s Retention and Graduation Rates CORE Initiatives Breakout Discussions

◦ Faculty Sharing: Practices for Student Achievement & Development

◦ Strengthening the Advisee/Mentee Connection◦ Making Individual Connections: Strategies for

Support Staff

Committee on Retention Efforts◦ Joint committee of academic and student affairs◦ Chaired by Karla Sanders, Center for Academic

Support & Assessment, & Kimberlie Moock, New Student Programs

◦ Charged by V.P. Lord & V.P. Nadler in Spring 2006

Selectivity Type First to Second Year Retention

6-Year Graduation Rates

Highly Selective (Top 10%; ACT 25-30)

95% 86%

Selective (Top 25%; ACT 21-26)

81.6% 60.5%

Traditional Selective (Top 50%; ACT 18-24)

69.3% 43.9%

Liberal Selective (Bottom 50%; ACT 17-22)

62.4% 38.5%

Open (No %; ACT 16-21 67.3% 36.8%

ALL Master’s Granting Public

71.1% 44.4%

Institutional Characteristics

6 Year Grad

EIU

6 Year Grad

Nat’l*

(+/-) Fresh to Soph

Retention EIU

Fre to Soph

Retention National*

(+/-)

All Public Master’s Granting

59%+ 43.9% +15.1% 79% 71.1% +9.3%

Traditional Selectivity Public **

59% 44.4% +14.7% 79% 69.3% +9.7%

*Source: ACT Institutional Data File, 2012** Defined as mean entering cohort ACT of 18-24+For Fall 2005 entering class

 

National Retention

RateIL Public

Retention Difference

National Graduation

RateIL Public

Graduation Difference

Highly Selective (Top 10%; ACT 25-30) 95% UI-UC 93% -2% 86%

UI-UC 82% -4%

Selective (Top 25%; ACT 21-26) 81.60% ISU 85% 3.60% 60.50% ISU 71% 10.50%

Selective (Top 25%; ACT 21-26) 81.60% UI-Ch 79% -2.60% 60.50% UI-Ch 54% -6.50%

Traditional Selective (Top 50%; ACT 18-24) 69.30% NIU 71% 1.70% 43.90% NIU 56% 12.10%

Traditional Selective (Top 50%; ACT 18-24) 69.30% WIU 71% 1.70% 43.90% WIU 53% 9.10%

Traditional Selective (Top 50%; ACT 18-24) 69.30% SIU-C 66% -3.30% 43.90%

SIU-C 45% 1.10%

Traditional Selective (Top 50%; ACT 18-24) 69.30% SIU-E 70% -0.70% 43.90% SIU-E 52% 8.10%

Traditional Selective (Top 50%; ACT 18-24) 69.30% EIU 79% 9.70% 43.90% EIU 59% 15.10%

69.3%

79%

85%

43.9%59%

70%

Retention

Graduation

Time to Degree

Graduation

First Year To Second Year

2011

All First-Time 79%

Minority First-Time 76%

First Generation 78%

Zero EFC* 74%

First-time Cohort Rate 2011

Six Year 59%

Five Year 54%

Four Year 32%

Minority

Six Year 45%

Five Year 40%

Four Year 17%

First Generation

Six Year 56%

Five Year 50%

Four Year 27%

Retention

All First-Time Students

2007 4.42

2011 4.79

Email Reminders about Registration Unregistered List to Departments Survey (not registered at 10th day)

◦ FA11-SP12, 496/9657 – 5% 24.4% holds

◦ SP12-FA12, 585/8777 - 7% 25.6% holds

◦ FA12-SP13, 494/8975 - 6% 34.6% holds

Why have you not yet registered for classes?• 36.2% hold• 20.69% not seen advisor to receive pin• 15.5% not gotten around to it• 6.9% financial aid/insufficient funds• 20.69% other reason

Why do you not intend to register?• 26.67% transferring to a community college• 13.3% transferring to a 4-year institution• 13.3% family issues that prevent attending• 8.89% going to work• 6.67% cannot afford it• 31.1% other reason

Early Alert System◦ Began in FA11◦ ITS developed to work with PAWS

FA11 FA12 Difference

# Alerts 852 965 +113

# Students 585 642 +57

# Faculty 102 101 -1

Noel Levitz Recommendation◦ History◦ Data◦ Context◦ Inniatitives

Living Document http://castle.eiu.edu/~core/

Connecting Recruitment to Retention Pre-Arrival Initiatives Financial Support

78% of our students rely on financial aid 6%

48.65% of our students are first-generation 7.65%

45.8% of the entering class are transfer students 6.8%

21.7% of our students are an ethnic minority 8% 20% of the entering freshman class were admitted through a

special admission program 11%

Faculty Sharing: Practices for Student Achievement & Development

Strengthening the Advisee/Mentee Connection

Making Individual Connections: Strategies for Support Staff

Graduation Rates: National Center for Education Statistics, http://nces.ed.gov/

National Retention and Graduation Benchmarks & Selectivity: ACT Institutional Data File, http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/retain_2010.pdf

EIU Retention and Graduation Rates: Planning and Institutional Studies, http://castle.eiu.edu/~planning/