It Takes A Community: Campus-Wide Student Retention Programs

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Student retention is often a responsibility that falls into a few administrators’ hands. Yet, the campus community plays an important role, too. Everyone on campus, from support staff to faculty, student leaders, professional staff, families, alumni and more, is part of the retention solution.

However, they may not always know how to help students want to stay. And that’s where It Takes A Community: Campus-Wide Student Retention Programs comes in.

Through the use of simple, impactful strategies, your campus community can flip the switch, creating an environment where students are more likely to graduate. It Takes a Community offers 50 strategies that any member of the campus community can use to positively improve retention.

What You Get

Each strategy is available as an infographic, complemented by additional research, ideas and/or campus examples. This 100-page resource…

• Raises awareness about the role all community members play in retention
• Provides practical tools to help them meet that expectation on a regular basis
• Shares easy to adapt strategies other campuses are using to get their students to stay
• Ultimately, encourages more students to persist to graduation 

** Bonus: Along with this resource, you’ll receive the digital 50 Ways to Retain Students and Help Them Persist to Graduation guide to share with your campus community.

How to Use This Resource

1. During awareness-raising sessions with different campus departments and groups to show how they can meet the expectation to be part of the student retention solution
2. To demonstrate to support staff, public safety officers, maintenance staff and others how their everyday interactions with students can have retention-positive impacts
3. To train advisors, supervisors, employers and student success coaches on questions to ask and environments to create to subtly put retention front and center
4. To show student leaders, peer mentors and graduate students how they can encourage fellow students to stick around

Plus, your purchase also includes a site license to share with your staff and campus community!

Two Versions to Choose From

1. Printed with Digital Download – includes a printed copy of this resource as well as digital access to the enclosed materials and accompanying license to share with your campus community. Price includes $9 shipping fee.
   
   
2. Digital Download Only – includes digital access to this resource and accompanying license to share with your campus community.

This resource will be available on or around December 9, 2024. For questions, email info@paper-clip.com.