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Supporting transfer student enrollment and completion goals
Higher education across the nation is facing detrimental declines in student enrollment, challenging our institution’s leaders to be more innovative, more strategic, more empathetic to the needs of students, and more flexible as the “traditional” state of in-person and residential campuses shift to meet today’s students. A large portion of today’s average student body comprises transfer students and these transfer students come with unique needs and expectations—ones that demand our institutions to be better equipped to support enrollment and completion of goals of these students.
Motivate faculty to contribute to student retention
Retaining students is more than a financial question—it’s an ethical one. Retaining our first-year students means we make good on the promise of admission: that not only will we invite you to join our institution, we’ll provide support to ensure you can be successful. Faculty’s communication and relationships with students are key in getting students to stay and succeed in college.
Investments to improve student comfort, success, and retention
Data supports that a number of students who transition from high school to college struggle in STEM fields. Paired with the financial cost of repeated courses, the emotional cost to struggling students, their families, and the faculty cognizant of these struggles tarnishes a student’s positive experiences pertaining to higher education. Universities should take an approach to meet students where they are at when they are accepted.
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