Transcript Student Success Centre

Northern College
Student Retention & Success
Strategies
Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology
Timmins, Ontario
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Mary-Anne Martin
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Coordinator / Professor
Tina Thibault-Lambert
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Professor
Northern College
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Fast facts (Fall 2004)
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4 main campuses
students
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1,276 full-time
7,298 part-time
faculty
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80 full time
120 part-time
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Communities
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Graduates
Northern College
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Michael Hill, President
Vision-Mission Statement
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Vision: A Northern Educational Community Network
Mission: To ensure accessible, quality educational
experiences that meet the unique needs of our
communities.
Motto: Transforming your future.
Northern College
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Commitment:
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Supporting, nurturing and celebrating learners’
and employees’ contributions and
accomplishments.
Maintaining a caring, friendly atmosphere.
Attrition Rates *
Fall 1999
9.95%
Fall 2000
9.8%
Fall 2001
2.65%
Fall 2002
2.2%
Fall 2003
2.1%
Fall 2004
0.7%
* Based on November audits
Current Student Success Strategies
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Student Success Centre
Study skills workshops
Peer tutors / Community tutors
Faculty-lead tutorial sessions
Study group formation
Consult with Centre for Students with DisAbilities
Individual learning plans
New initiatives for fall 2005
The Student Success Centre (SSC)
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Created as a result of our new vision-mission
Created to address unacceptably high drop out
rate among first semester students
Began programs and services September 2001
Reduced our attrition rate to well below the
provincial average.
Assisted students to realize their academic goals
Student Success Centre
 Location
 Staff
Learning Resource Centre
Student Success Centre
Student Success Centre
Student Success Centre
“When You Succeed, We Succeed”
SSC PHILOSOPHY
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Every student can be a better student
Every student has his/her own definition of
success
We help students in whatever way we can
We make referrals to other college and
community services
Faculty in the SSC
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The SSC is staffed by faculty for 20 to 35
hours/week as part of their workload
Students can ‘drop-in’ or make an
appointment to speak with faculty
Our function is two-fold
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Content resource (tutoring and mentoring)
Student success resource
PERIOD
MONDAY
08:30
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09:20
Shirley
Deleurant
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10:20
Des
Quinn
10:30
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11:20
FALL 2003
11:30
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12:20
12:30
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01:20
STUDENT SUCCESS
CENTRE
STAFF SCHEDULE
01:30
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02:20
02:30
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03:20
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04:20
04:30
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05:20
05:30
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06:20
TUESDAY
Liz
Hughes
Trish
Gibson
Lana Guscott
Trish Gibson
Des Quinn
Candice Kosick
Jim
Andrews
Angie
Giguere
(Student Liaison)
FRIDAY
Neal
McNair
Des
Quinn
Neal
McNair
Candice
Kosick
Mary Ann
Martin
Tina
Lambert
Jim
Andrews
Angie
Giguere
(Student
Liaison)
Liz
Hughes
Angie
Giguere
(Student
Liaison)
Student
Development
Neal McNair
Neal McNair
THURSDAY
Des Quinn
Tina Lambert
Sue McGirl
WEDNESDAY
Sue
McGirl
SSC - Summary
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The Student Success Centre is a student,
faculty, and support staff-driven initiative that
is fully endorsed and supported by our
administration.
Study Skills Workshops
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Orientation workshop
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Study and test taking skills
Time management and anxiety management
Introduction to and tour of the SSC and Northern
College
Study Skills Workshops
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Test skills seminars
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test / exam taking strategies offered twice each
semester
Tutor seminars
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Introduces nature/scope of tutoring position
Offers tutoring/teaching strategies training
Tutoring
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Peer tutoring services
Community tutoring services
Tutoring Statistics
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Fall and Winter semesters (2003-2004)
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Fall 2004
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185 tutorees and 75 tutors
106 students requested tutors
96 assigned tutors
Winter 2005
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All students who requested tutoring were
assigned tutors
New Initiatives
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Summer 2005
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Math tutoring
Fall 2005
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AccuPlacer
Faculty-lead tutorials
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Faculty-lead math tutorials in technology (on
SWF)
Fall 2005
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Faculty-lead remediation
Individual Learning Plan
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Initiated by coordinators
Student Plan 14 – 29 – 44
Learning Plan for at-risk students
Final Thought
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“In the future, the new illiterate will be the
person who has not learned how to learn.”
(Anonymous)
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We must do all we can to help students to
become successful learners.