RETENTION MANAGEMENT AND ADVISING SERVICES

Retention Management and Advising Services (RMAS) represents one of three major areas within the Division of Student Success and Enrollment Management at Kentucky State University. The departments that comprise Retention Management and Advising Services are: Academic Center for Excellence (ACE), Center for Academic Persistence and Success (CAPS), Placement, Testing, Career Preparation, and Student Support Services (SSS). The goal of this comprehensive area is to increase student retention rates and persistence to graduation with a focus on academic success and achievement through intrusive, early intervention, academic support programming, and systematic tracking of students from matriculation to graduation. Several programmatic strategies have been instituted both by the area and individual departments in support of the institutional goals of improving student persistence, retention rates, graduation rates, and academic success.

2013/14 Programmatic Priorities

As outlined in the Division's strategic plan, the 2013/14 annual programmatic priorities for area of Retention Management and Advising Services includes the following:

To increase student retention, progression and timely degree completion

To decrease the number of students with academic action

Summary of Area Progress

• SSEM is working with Academic Affairs in an effort to re-enroll any freshmen who were not retained from fall 2013 to spring 2014 because of academic reasons and those who may have left in good academic standing. Current efforts include contacting those students to ensure they have a plan to get back on track academically. Staff is also reaching out to those students who left in good academic standing to see if they will consider re-enrolling.
• The University is working aggressively to implement the Course Signals software. It was not fully implemented as planned this semester but will be piloted in the summer and fully implemented in fall 2014. This system will be critical to our efforts to decrease the number of mid-term warnings.

Spring 2014 Retention Management & Advising Services Departmental Highlights

Academic Center for Excellence (ACE)

During the months of January through March 2014, ACE served over 300 students in more than 650 one-on-one tutorial sessions and an additional 169 students in workshops and classroom presentations, in collaboration with the FRIENDS program, including: time management and goal setting, learning styles and study skills, math test-taking skills, preparing for midterms, stress management, textbook management, listening-note taking-memory, and overcoming math anxiety.

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