Nov. 18, 2011: CAFE, Student Enrollment and Student Success, THE Book Group
by Jamie Gonzales |
Friday, Nov. 18, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 302
Want to learn more about the story behind UAA's low graduation rates recently mentioned in the local press? Have questions about how UAA "counts" students, measures their preparedness, and how these measurements fit into larger issues of assessment, patterns of enrollment and more?
CAFE's Topics In Higher Education (THE) Book Group welcomes Gary Rice, associate vice provost for Institutional Research, for a brown bag session with faculty to address "Student Enrollment & Student Success." All faculty are welcome.
THE Book Group has been exploring the bestselling book Academically Adrift, which makes some serious and disheartening claims about what students are and are not learning in the first two years of their college educations. During the course of discussing the book, group members have raised a variety of questions, many of which can be answered through information tracked by Institutional Research. So, THE Book Group has invited Rice to speak about his work tracking patterns of student enrollment, as well as his nationally-recognized work on redefining measurements for student success rates. He has valuable insights to share with respect to attrition, retention, graduation rates and more.
We welcome the submission of questions for Vice Provost Rice in advance of this session. Please send them liisa@uaa.alaska.edu by Wednesday, Nov. 16.
Please register online for the session.
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