[Agvisors] FW: Update on campus-wide retention initiatives and CALS numbers

Sat Aug 12 22:16:36 MST 2017

Greetings Agvisors::

First off, thank you for all your student outreach efforts and for being a great, caring group of professional academic advisors. This past academic year including the summer orientations, degree map validation project, general retention initiatives, etc. have been non-stop.  Students and the college as a whole are fortunate to have you all.

On behalf of Dean Burgess, Associate Dean Staten and I, thank you for the outreach in phone calls, emails, nudges, and your creative approaches in reaching out to students from the non-enrolled lists you have worked on since priority registration ended.  As reported at the Retention Academy in late July, the UA has met its goal going into this Fall term (UA  goal was 83%).  You will also  notice that CALS is doing well.  The impact you have with student  efforts does pay off, thank you!

We also thank everyone for representing  CALS overall as we do.  It truly does take a village to make an impact, and collaboratively continue to make students feel welcome and  as part of a family, "home away from home."  As mentioned in former meetings CALS is seen as a college that models efforts in various areas, advising being one of them.  Thank you for all you continue to do.

Below are the enrollment rates for CALS F16 FTFT/Wildcat Academy/Schedule for Success students for the week of 8/7 as reported by the UA Institutional Research .  The list also includes the Fall 2015 FTFT students (sophomores returning for junior year).  To help with comparison the numbers for the university from Vin's email below are in parenthesis.

Please let me now if you have any questions.

CALS F16 FTFT - 86.35% (84.29%)
                Residents - 86.72% (87.22%)
                Non-Residents - 85.06% (78.92%)
                International - 88.89% (85.52%)

CALS F16 Schedule for Success - 57.69% (60.95%)
CALS F16 Wildcat Academy- 61.25% (62.86%)

CALS F15 FTFT - 76.19% (71.00%)
Residents - 82.62% (75.38%)
                Non-Residents - 66.26% (63.86%)
                International - 53.33% (74.75%)

Best,
Nancy

Nancy G. Rodriguez-Lorta, M.Ed. | Senior Director, Advising and Student Services
UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Office of Career & Academic Services
Forbes Room 203 | PO Box 210036 |Tucson, AZ 85721-0036
Phone: (520) 621-3616 | Fax: (520) 621-8662
Twitter: @CALS_UA  | Website: cals.arizona.edu/cas

To schedule an appointment call (520) 621-3616

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Message from Vin Del Casino:

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing with some exciting news. As of this morning our FTFT F16 cohort retention rate sits at 84.21% (up from 80.22% last year at this time)! Within this number, resident retention is 87.22% (up from 83.57% last year), nonresident is 78.92% (up from 74.91% last year), and international is 85.52% (up from 84.73% last year)!!! That's right, in this crazy year, we are retaining a higher percentage of international students!!!

As you might recall, our ABOR goal for this year is 83%.

Everyone across campus has engaged to make this happen - we are truly working across the "low walls" of this institution. And, we are not done yet!!

The momentum that has been building from the work this entire year has been pushed forward by some great summer initiatives, including Roxie Catt's very successful series of Retention Academy events as well as calling campaigns by the advisors in the academic colleges and the staff in our Office of Academic Success and Achievement (ASA).

We will soon be pushing forward several other initiatives to not only retain all those students who have registered already but further increase the retention number above. This will include a year-long nudging campaign that will begin this week with a broad message from Jenny Nirh our Assistant Director in ASA.

The non-FTFT F16 populations is a slightly different story. Our Wildcat Academy retention number sits at almost 63%, while our Schedule for Success retention number sits at almost 61%. Everyone is working hard to bring these F16 students back to campus as well (evidence from the winter suggests these students tend to enroll much later). We don't have point-in-time comparisons, but these are groups appear to be tracking slightly below last year's numbers for these same populations. Three weeks to the first class, though! Lots of time!!

More to come as we get even closer to the start of semester.

Cheers,
Vin

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Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Ph.D.
Vice President, Academic Initiatives and Student Success
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