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Make good use of data to retain your students
Author(s) -
Hope Joan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the successful registrar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7560
pISSN - 1534-7710
DOI - 10.1002/tsr.30253
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , persistence (discontinuity) , plan (archaeology) , mathematics education , psychology , operations management , demography , medical education , medicine , mathematics , geography , sociology , engineering , archaeology , geometry , geotechnical engineering
SAN ANTONIO — If your goal is to improve student persistence and completion numbers, using data to understand your students and plan initiatives is the first step. At Saint Joseph's University in Pennsylvania, first‐year retention rates increased from 85.5 percent to 89 percent and six‐year graduation rates increased from 77 percent to 79 percent over a five‐year period.