{"id":28412,"date":"2017-10-27T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28412"},"modified":"2018-01-15T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:46:34","slug":"ideas-sought-to-improve-student-retention-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28412","title":{"rendered":"Ideas sought to improve student retention, graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Town-Hall.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28415\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Town-Hall-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Town-Hall-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Town-Hall-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Town-Hall.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Nov. 15 Campus Town Hall meeting will focus on student retention and will feature both discussion and brainstorming opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-minute town hall will begin at 10 a.m. in University Center 303 and will feature a brief introduction to the issues of student retention and graduation followed by the opportunity to ask questions and offer suggestions of how UCCS can improve student retention and graduation rates.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, about 65 percent of UCCS undergraduate students were retained from freshman to sophomore years. The six-year graduation rate is 47 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The town hall is sponsored by Chancellor Venkat Reddy and Susan Szpyrka, senior vice chancellor, Administration and Finance. The event will feature members of a new strategic enrollment team.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s members include: Szpyrka; Susan Taylor, interim associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education and academic planning, Academic Affairs; Mathew Cox, senior executive director of enrollment management, Admissions Services; Jevita Rogers, executive director, Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment; Barbara Gaddis, assistant vice chancellor for student success and retention, Student Retention and First Year Experience Office; Robyn Marschke, director, Institutional Research Office; and Megan Bell, executive director of community learning and assessment, Residence Life and Housing.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend town halls. Refreshments served. Summaries of town hall meetings are published in Communique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=27549\">Chancellor, provost promote academic excellence in first town hall <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A Nov. 15 Campus Town Hall meeting will focus on student retention and will feature both discussion and brainstorming opportunities. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28412\" title=\"Ideas sought to improve student retention, graduation\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-28412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events","tag-administration-and-finance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Town-Hall.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-7og","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28418,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28412\/revisions\/28418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}