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April 25, 2018

Date/Time
Wednesday, 04/25/2018
Location
Reaud 312
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Retention Committee

Subcommittee Chairs Meeting

Minutes 

In attendance: Ted Mahavier, Jackie Jensen-Vallin, Amy Smith, PJ Couch, Daniel Bartlett , Terry Mena, Joe Nordgren

Minutes of last meeting approved by all in attendance.

Chair’s Report

  • New co-chair, Craig Escamilla, introduced
  • Working on restructuring Retention Committee and efforts
    • Moving Outreach under MRFA
  • Identifying priorities for the subcommittees, and the overall retention efforts
  • Meetings April 26 and 27, 2018 with consultant from RNL

 

Old Business

Student Engagement – Terry Mena

  • Plan to focus on overall priorities from consultant’s list of nine
  • Top engagement priority-hold a “think tank” of key constituents to set an LU Residence Life vision
  • Need to develop solutions for community learning and programming in dorms
  • Will need to work with Recruitment and Financial Aid on tuition and pricing, scholarships and aid, etc.

Outreach – PJ Couch/Deidra Mayer (2:16)

  • A group of administrators met with LIT administrators to discuss a Blinn/A&M Model
    • Next step is to meet with all LIT constituents who will be involved in implementation with a pilot Fall 2019 goal and promotion beginning this summer (2018)
  • The outreach event on April 21 went very well
  • The Recruitment Office is building a form and details for faculty to report and consistently deliver recruitment efforts in the community

Marketing, Recruitment, and Financial Aid – Deidra Mayer

  • Beginning in Fall 2019, IA students will have a July 1 application deadline with one week to complete all registration materials.
    • Regular admit students will have an August 1 application deadline
    • Committee will also need to look at deadlines for advising and registration (and TSI testing, if needed) since success if largely dependent on students being enrolled and committed
  • The graduation survey is designed and in the process of being added to the system for administration to students

Faculty Engagement (FE) Amy/Jackie (2:28)

  • Work is in progress on a database with unified and standardized information on all faculty awards
    • Working on notification system for faculty receiving (with instructions) and not receiving awards
  • UAC is recommending ALEKS testing software to students while the program is being implemented piecemeal
  • The Career Center is working on communicating with faculty and departments about marketable skills development processes
  • Some progress is evident in large class size issues, but work continues
  • Future work should include developing a more substantive evaluation of faculty teaching effectiveness

Student Success Initiative & Advising (SSCA)  Kayla (2:31) 

  • Work continues on building infrastructure and beginning implementation of SSC Campus
    • A lot of information is being collected and discussions are taking place about who to make this a useful tool for campus-wide decision making
    • The current focus is on implementing SSC Campus with LU support services before rollout to advisors and colleges
  • Approaching work on restructuring advising in two phases: 1. Case management through work with individual college retention “leads” (success coaches), 2. Some unification of advising processes across campus

 

No new business raised.

 

Meeting was closed at 3:00 pm.