RETENTION MANAGEMENT AND ADVISING SERVICES

Retention Management and Advising Services (RMAS) represent 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.

Spring 2013 Retention Management and Advising Services Highlights

Academic Center for Excellence (ACE)

• During the spring 2013 semester, ACE served over 488 students in more than 1,944 one-on-one tutorial sessions and an additional 393 students in workshops and classroom presentations.
• ACE regular clientele (8 or more visits) experienced a 92% pass rate in their tutored classes. This same cohort earned an average of 13.01 credit hours during the semester with an average GPA of 2.89.
• The Director collaborated with Academic Affairs on the successful rewrite of the Wal-Mart Student Success Collaborative grant which will fund faculty/staff learning community efforts for another year. An initial meeting of the expanded learning community was held at the KSU Research Farm on June 19th. A national meeting of all institutions participating in the grant will be held on the KSU campus this September 12-13th.
• ACE staff collaborated with the University's new Frankfort/Franklin County outreach to work with the Paul Sawyer Library, King Center, and Capital City Reading Camp for literacy efforts.

FRIENDS

The Finding Resources In Education for NontraDitional Students (FRIENDS) Program contributes to the success of KSU's overall mission to its students with a focus on the nontraditional, commuter, and distance education students. This semester 154 students made use of the FRIENDS program during the months of April May, and June.

Staff members of FRIENDS in conjunction with ACE provided academic workshops to Nursing Education Enrichment Project students on Learning Styles, Study Skills, Goal Setting, and Time Management to give guidance, focus and to

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