Northern College Student Retention

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Northern CollegeStudent Retention
Success Strategies
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Northern College of Applied Arts and
TechnologyTimmins, Ontario

• Mary-Anne Martin
• Coordinator / Professor
• Tina Thibault-Lambert
• Professor

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Northern College

• Fast facts (Fall 2004)
• 4 main campuses
• students
• 1,276 full-time
• 7,298 part-time
• faculty
• 80 full time
• 120 part-time
• Communities
• Graduates

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Northern College

• Michael Hill, President
• Vision-Mission Statement
• Vision A Northern Educational Community Network
• Mission To ensure accessible, quality
  educational experiences that meet the unique
  needs of our communities.
• Motto Transforming your future.

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Northern College

• Commitment
• Supporting, nurturing and celebrating learners
  and employees contributions and accomplishments.
• Maintaining a caring, friendly atmosphere.

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Attrition Rates
Fall 1999 9.95
Fall 2000 9.8
Fall 2001 2.65
Fall 2002 2.2
Fall 2003 2.1
Fall 2004 0.7
Based on November audits
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Current Student Success Strategies

• Student Success Centre
• Study skills workshops
• Peer tutors / Community tutors
• Faculty-lead tutorial sessions
• Study group formation
• Consult with Centre for Students with
  DisAbilities
• Individual learning plans
• New initiatives for fall 2005

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The Student Success Centre (SSC)

• Created as a result of our new vision-mission
• Created to address unacceptably high drop out
  rate among first semester students
• Began programs and services September 2001
• Reduced our attrition rate to well below the
  provincial average.
• Assisted students to realize their academic goals

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Student Success Centre

• Location

• Staff

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Student Success Centre
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Student Success Centre
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Student Success Centre

• When You Succeed, We Succeed

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SSC PHILOSOPHY

• Every student can be a better student
• Every student has his/her own definition of
  success
• We help students in whatever way we can
• We make referrals to other college and community
  services

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Faculty in the SSC

• The SSC is staffed by faculty for 20 to 35
  hours/week as part of their workload
• Students can drop-in or make an appointment to
  speak with faculty
• Our function is two-fold
• Content resource (tutoring and mentoring)
• Student success resource

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FALL 2003 STUDENT SUCCESS CENTRE STAFF SCHEDULE
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SSC - Summary

• The Student Success Centre is a student, faculty,
  and support staff-driven initiative that is fully
  endorsed and supported by our administration.

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Study Skills Workshops

• Orientation workshop
• Study and test taking skills
• Time management and anxiety management
• Introduction to and tour of the SSC and Northern
  College

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Study Skills Workshops

• Test skills seminars
• test / exam taking strategies offered twice each
  semester
• Tutor seminars
• Introduces nature/scope of tutoring position
• Offers tutoring/teaching strategies training

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Tutoring

• Peer tutoring services
• Community tutoring services

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Tutoring Statistics

• Fall and Winter semesters (2003-2004)
• 185 tutorees and 75 tutors
• Fall 2004
• 106 students requested tutors
• 96 assigned tutors
• Winter 2005
• All students who requested tutoring were assigned
  tutors

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New Initiatives

• Summer 2005
• Math tutoring
• Fall 2005
• AccuPlacer

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Faculty-lead tutorials

• Faculty-lead math tutorials in technology (on
  SWF)
• Fall 2005
• Faculty-lead remediation

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Individual Learning Plan

• Initiated by coordinators
• Student Plan 14 29 44
• Learning Plan for at-risk students

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Final Thought

• In the future, the new illiterate will be the
  person who has not learned how to learn.
  (Anonymous)
• We must do all we can to help students to become
  successful learners.

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