{"id":35835,"date":"2018-11-08T14:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35835"},"modified":"2018-11-08T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T22:16:35","slug":"nov-14-chancellors-town-hall-to-focus-on-retention-and-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35835","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 14 Chancellor&#8217;s Town Hall to focus on retention and graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28700\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1210.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28700\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1210-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"Chancellor Town Hall\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1210-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1210-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1210-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_1210-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 Chancellor Town Hall on retention and graduation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Faculty and staff are encouraged to join Chancellor Venkat Reddy and Vice Chancellor Chuck Litchfield to discuss ideas for improving retention and graduation rates for students during a Town Hall event at 2-3:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in Berger Hall.<\/p>\n<p>UCCS experienced a 2.4 percent increase in the retention rate for fall 2018 with a record 1,363 students returning to campus for their second year. The rate improved to 67.2 percent, and the university set 72 percent as a goal by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Retention and graduation were the topics of a <a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28697\">Town Hall event a year ago<\/a>, when a capacity crowd of 125 faculty and staff brainstormed how to provide the needed resources and systems for student success. The topic is also\u00a0the focus of a subcommittee of the Strategic Enrollment Team formed in fall 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Refreshments will be served. No RSVP is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Faculty and staff are encouraged to join Chancellor Venkat Reddy and Vice Chancellor Chuck Litchfield to discuss ideas for improving retention and graduation rates for students during a Town Hall event at 2-3:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in Berger Hall. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35835\" title=\"Nov. 14 Chancellor&#8217;s Town Hall to focus on retention and graduation\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31432,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[44,62],"class_list":["post-35835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-administration-and-finance","tag-chancellors-office"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Chancellor-Town-Hall.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-9jZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35835","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35835"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35863,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35835\/revisions\/35863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}