CSRDE and the National Symposium on Student Retention

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CSRDE and the National Symposium on Student
Retention

• Kirsten A. Rowe, SUNY New Paltz

Annual Conference of the Association for
Institutional Research and Planning Officers,
Canandaigua, NY, June 15, 2007
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Overview

• CSRDE
• What is it?
• What do I put in to it?
• What do I get out of it?
• The National Symposium on Student Retention
• Highlights from Retention for Rookies
  pre-conference workshop

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CSRDE What Is It?

• The Consortium for Student Retention Data
  Exchange
• Website http//www.ou.edu/csrde/
• Est. 1994 Center for Institutional Data Exchange
  and Analysis (C-IDEA), The University of Oklahoma
• Approximately 575 member institutions public and
  private, 2 and 4-year (primarily in the US)
• Consortium Data In for Data Out
• Benchmarking data on retention and graduation

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CSRDE What Do I Put in to It?

• Main Survey (Required)
• 4-year first-time, full-time baccalaureate
  degree-seeking freshmen
• 2-year first-time, full-time and part-time
  certificate/degree-seeking freshmen
• Optional Surveys for 4-year Institutions
• First-time Full-time STEM Majors (STEM)
• Community College Transfers into 4-year
  Institutions (Transfers)

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CSRDE 2007 Timeline
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CSRDE Main Survey, 4-Year

• 7 cohorts (07 survey included 99 thru 05)
• Total, per gender, and per race/ethnicity
• Fall to fall rates (percent of cohort)
• Continuation to 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th years
• Graduation in 4, 5, and 6 years
• Institutional characteristics (e.g., percent of
  freshmen in housing)
• Sample surveys and reports available for download
  via the website

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CSRDE Main Survey, 2-Year

• 6 cohorts (07 survey included 00 thru 05)
• Total, per gender, and per race/ethnicity
• Fall to fall rates (percent of cohort)
• Continuation to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years
• Graduation in 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years
• Institutional characteristics (e.g., percent of
  part-time enrollments)
• Sample surveys and reports available for download
  via the website

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CSRDE What Do I Get out of It?

• 100-plus pages report
• Executive summary and assorted tables
• Characteristics and rates
• Institutional Control
• Carnegie Classification
• Selectivity

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CSRDE Institutional Classification
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Retention for Rookies

• Beth Richter and Tim Culver, Noel-Levitz
• The National Symposium on Student Retention,
  Albuquerque, NM, October 9, 2006
• Retention is an outcome of the student
  experience its not what we do, but what we hope
  happens.
• Past focus on first-year experience
• Present focus on sophomore slump/junior
  jaunt

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Retention for Rookies

• Student-centric campuses are successful
• Guiding themes in student success and retention
  initiatives
• Assessment Intervention
• Individual Student Assessment Early
  Intervention
• Institutional Assessment Campus Planning
• Human Interactions
• Engaging Campus Climates
• Enhanced Advising
• Instructional Effectiveness