Retention: By the Numbers
How Do They Get Here?
How Do We Keep Them?
Hodge Podge: Advising & Honors
100
Number of Early Intervention Alerts Reported Fall 2011
What is 4000+? (4402, to be exact through CARES: Center for Academic Retention & Enrichment Services)
100
Given each weekday at 9:30am & 1:30pm Also, the 1st Saturday of each month at 9:30am
What are campus tours through the Office of Recruitment & Orientation Services? 1,279 toured during these times in the 2011-2012 cycle
100
Number of tutoring hours provided through Educational Support Program for the 2011-2012 academic year
What is 23,000? ESP provides FREE academic assistance for classes students are currently taking - both undergraduate & graduate.
100
Approximate percentage of undergraduate students in the Helen Hardin Honors Program
What is 10%? 1,852 students for Fall 2012
200
First Year Retention Rates of First-Time, Full Time Freshmen
What is ~75%?
200
Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Mississippi, Arkansas & Illinois
What are targeted out of state recruitment areas? In the 2011-2012 recruitment cycle, the U of M attended 26 college fairs in these states.
200
First-time, full-time freshmen one-year retention rate was 86% for students participating in this extended orientation program.
What is Frosh Camp?
200
Students in many colleges & departments can now make advising appointments online through this technology.
What is Appointment Plus? This month alone 827 (as of 10/19/12) students had made their spring advising appointment this way.
300
Current U of M 6-year Graduation Rate
What is 40.8%
300
Number of college fairs & high school visits to recruit incoming students last year.
What is 437?
300
This scholarship program boasts a persistence rate of 90% or greater.
What is the Emerging Leaders Program?
300
This event began as a project of the Academic Counseling Center in 2005 & draws freshmen taking ACAD1100 as well as sophomores, juniors, and seniors making decisions about major.
What is Discover Your Major Day?
400
469
What is the number of first time freshmen in the Helen Hardin Honors Program this Fall?
400
This office completed 28,347 phone calls to prospective students & their families.
What is the Telecounseling Office within Recruitment & Orientation Services? 77,492 calls were attempted throughout the year with a 37% completion rate.
400
A new initiative to prompt students throughout the semester by sending virtual messages from their futuristic self.
What is Future You? Students can "follow" Future You on Twitter & "like" it on Facebook to receive these prompts.
400
469 First-Time Freshmen
What is the number new freshmen participating in the Helen Hardin Honors Program in Fall 2012?
500
Number of students in First Scholars Cohort each Fall
What is 20? First Scholars is a 4-year comprehensive program with an emphasis on retention for first gen college students.
500
Percentage of students retained at census date who attended New Student Orientation
What is 98%?
500
Approximately 1/3 of all TRIO students have a GPA of _______ or higher
What is 3.0? TRIO, alongside the First Scholars Program, falls within the department of Student Success Programs.
500
This degree planning tool can be utilized by students and advisors to chart time to degree within their myMemphis account.
What is UMdegree?
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