I will be covering a list of relevant data points at my Forum next Friday.
ABD

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From: Teaching Breakfast List on behalf of Dr. Paul A. French
Sent: Tue 8/30/2005 4:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Retention and Student Engagement



Whew! Glad to hear our data are much better than what it says on the web.

 

It's too bad that the published data are so far off in the wrong direction! I wonder how that happened?!!

 

Paul

 

Paul A. French

Associate Professor and Chair, Physics and Astronomy Department

SUNY College at Oneonta

Room 120 E, Physical Science Building

Oneonta, NY 13820

 

607-436-3358

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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:21 PM
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Tber's

Just a footnote to Jim's reference to retention rates.

The figure for 2003 ( 47.2%) refers to the class which entered 6  years before and at that time the Freshman to Sophomore retention rate was about 60%. This fall we estimate the retention rate of last years' freshman to be 81%. Extrapolating from that, it will not be too long -- and we have already seen the six year increase % as we have retained more freshmen -- to be over 50% and then eventually 62% plus.

ABD

 

 

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From: Teaching Breakfast List on behalf of Jim Greenberg
Sent: Tue 8/30/2005 10:22 AM
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Subject: Retention and Student Engagement

Tbers,

Reminder that the first TB of the year will be Sept. 7 at 8 am in Morris
Hall. We will be talking about "student engagement".  I'd be interested in
hearing faculty thoughts on what they do, and what they think we can do to
better engage our students. Steve Perry will be joining us.

On a related matter, a faculty member recently pointed out the website
www.collegeresults.org to me.  It is very interesting. There are, for
example, graduation rates for all of the colleges in the U.S. If you compare
SUNY Oneonta with like schools, (or other SUNYs) we don't look very good.
I'm not sure which years this data is for or exactly how they get it, but
thought you might want to look it over.


Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820

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