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Success Beyond Year One: Retain Your Sophomores, Juniors & Seniors
Webinar Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
To be successful in increasing graduation rates, colleges need to look beyond their freshmen class. Having an effective plan to retain your sophomores, juniors & seniors is crucial to improving your retention statistics. Join us for this 60 minute webinar where you and your colleagues will learn:
- Tools to improve upperclassmen retention & increase graduation rates
- Methods to analyze retention data to see where your college stands
- Strategies to effectively assess satisfaction of returning students
- What makes juniors & seniors leave and how to prevent it
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
This 60-minute webinar will provide your college with the knowledge to increase support of your upperclassmen and transfer students and retain them through graduation.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Strategies for Focusing Your Efforts on What Matters Most
- How to identify what was missing from the first-year experience
- Methods for targeting non-freshmen in your retention efforts
- Making the most of your money - retention plans on a budget
- Academic Advisement Techniques to Effectively Reach Students
- Tips to analyze the needs of students on a case by case basis
- Critical guidance - tips for course selection & withdrawal
- Techniques to welcome, reach, & retain transfer students
- How to handle tough conversations - recommending a major switch
- Proven Methods to Engage Students Outside the Classroom
- Instituting co-curricular programs to increase upperclassmen involvement
- Strategies for helping students create opportunities to help them grow
- Tactics for involving peers in the retention efforts of upperclassmen
- Question & Answer Session - Have Your Upperclassmen Retention Questions Answered!
- Strategies for Focusing Your Efforts on What Matters Most
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SPEAKER
Dr. Jennifer L. McCluskey is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Assistant Professor of Education, and Director of the Center for First-Year Experience & Advising at Maryville University in Saint Louis. In these roles, Dr. McCluskey leads the retention efforts and academic advising center, oversees and teaches in the University Seminar and Peer Mentor courses, and champions the efforts created to assist students in transition at Maryville.
- Dr. McCluskey received her PhD in Education from the University of Missouri at Saint Louis and has worked in Higher Education for 16 years.
- She has consulted on first-year seminar development, facilitated regional, national, and international conference presentations on student retention, student success, students in transition, peer leader programs, and is currently participating on two action research projects - one researching academic advising and another researching the effectiveness of the first-year seminar.
- Dr. McCluskey is a 2010 recipient of the Maryville Staff Member of the Year award as well as a 2008 recipient of the Michael Miller award given to the Maryville community member who makes the greatest impact on campus life.
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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