Back Row: Addie Siebenthal Maria Vergara Brianna Allen Stella Ndauwa Vivian Vu Front Row: Breanna Ezell Lexa Curtis
• Marble Musings Budget/Legislative, Strategic Plan, Retention • Dr. Brad Hodson Performance Funding, Downtown Initiatives, Marketing • Dr. Paula Carson HLC, Deans Searches, Program Review, • Rob Yust Health Insurance, MOSERS, Capital Projects • Jared Bruggeman JV Programs, Women’s Golf, Eligibility • Maryann Mitts Great Game of Education Update • Darren Fullerton Retention, Retention, Retention • Q & A
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
• CBHE did not recommend an increase for Higher Education • Further cuts and/or withholdings are possible • Legislative session focus • Prevailing wage, opioids, veteran hiring, taxes, roads/bridges/highways • SB389 reform • Missouri Southern • Dental School partnership with UMKC • Capital funding to renovate Taylor Performing Arts Center • Local Legislators and Higher Education Commissioner Mulligan
Categories EdTech, Education, Predictive Analytics, Founded Date - May 1, 2011 Founders Charles Thornburgh, Mark Milliron Operating Status - Active Number of Employees 101-250 Austin, Texas
• 44% of non-persisting students came from the 3.0 – 4.0 GPA range. • 34% came from the 2.0 – 3.0 GPA range - only 22% had a 2.0 or below. This multi-year study indicates a slight variance between onground and on-line, and almost no variance between access and selective institutions.
Student Success • Completions per student FTE • Pass rate on licensure exams Efficiency • Operating salaries per student FTE • Core expenditures as a percent of total expenditures Affordability • Share of wallet for Missouri undergraduate students Graduate Outcomes • Employed, volunteering, or grad school within six months
Criterion 1: Mission Criterion 2: Integrity: Ethical & Responsible Conduct Criterion 3: Teaching & Learning: Quality, Resources & Support Criterion 4: Teaching & Learning: Evaluation & Improvement Criterion 5: Resources, Planning & Institutional Effectiveness Quality Initiative Program Prioritization – Total Quality Initiative – Great Game of Education • Federal Compliance • Assumed Practices Teaching & Learning: Quality, Resources & Support Teaching & Learning: Evaluation & Improvement Resources, Planning & Institutional Effectiveness • On-Site Prep • • • • • •
• Terminated: Paralegal • Combined: French and Spanish = Modern Languages Poly Sci/Geography/International Studies = Global and Political Affairs Chemistry and Biochemistry Music Industry and Music • Defended and Approved: Middle School Education, Mathematics, Chemistry, Curriculum & Instruction Masters, Paramedic/EMS, Radiologic Technology, History • Still Being Deliberated: Physics, Theatre, Art, Music, Medical Technology
Education
Arts & Sciences
• Is it working? • What will result if this trend continues? • Ways to reduce medical costs
• Have you heard about the Voluntary Wellness Incentive Program? • How does it work? • The program utilizes a simple point system, which identifies various required activities you can do to earn points to achieve your goal. • Activities such as preventative exam, a health screening, health assessment, MSSU Wellness Expo, Lunch & Learns, etc.
• What are the benefits? • You can earn a monthly $25 contribution credit toward your health insurance costs. That is $300/year. • The University Council approved that the program be permanently voluntary. • Be sure to participate in 2018 to receive the credit in 2019. • Check your email for details or contact Craig Gullet or HR.
• Academic Year 2015-2016: 366 student-athletes • Academic Year 2016-2017: 430 student-athletes • Fall of 2017: 483 student-athletes with more joining MSSU at mid-year • 27 student-athletes graduated during winter commencement with 3 being Magna Cum Laude and one being in her first year of medical school at KCU-Joplin
• Late recruitment time as approval was in the summer of 2017 • MBB added 19 new student-athletes • WBB added 11 new student-athletes • All pay their own way for school • Contest Numbers: • JV MBB will play 13 games (12 of them at home) • JV WBB will play 12 games (6 at home)
• Addition of women’s sport required by the NCAA ISSSG/Title IX report • Women’s golf is a high-demand sport within the region • Local school districts excel at the sport • Minimal cost and attracts between 12-17 student-athletes once fully implemented • Regional community members we know will support the program financially • Area golf courses will allow us to use facilities at no charge
John Gardner Comments‌ “It is disturbing to note that in spite of all we know about student retention, that institutions are still inclined to hold students responsible for their retention/attrition while dramatically minimizing the institutional role in student retention.â€? John Gardner, founder of the Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education
Why is Student Retention Important to MSSU?
University Funding • Performance Funding - State of Missouri • Tuition Revenue
Student Satisfactory Academic Progress/Graduation Rates • Grades to Remain in Good Standing • Financial Aid Eligibility • Switching Majors - adds time and cost Lost Student Costs - Drop Outs, Stop Outs, Transfers, etc. Lost revenue, and additional University expense to “re-engage” students.
Attrition Rate by Year in College Fall 2015
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First Year Second Year Third Year
National 20% 10% 9%
MSSU 38% 15% 8%
Retention Rates • Semester to Semester Freshman Cohort Fall to Spring Retention Rates - Average 80% Spring to Fall Retention Rates - Average 60% • Fall to Fall Retention Rates Fall 2016 - 65% Fall 2015 - 61%
MSSU Student Demographics • First Generation Students: 62% | Pell Eligible: 52% • Average Time to Graduation for Bachelor’s Degree: 5.49 years • Average ACT: 21.68 • High School GPA of entering students >3.75 3.75-3.5 3.49-3.25 3.24-3.0 2.99-2.5 2.4-2.0
28.3% 17% 15.4% 11.2% 19.5% 8.6%
71.9%
Other Institutions with Similar Students Institution
First Year Fall to Fall Retention
4-Year GR
6-Year GR
Pittsburg State Univ.
75%
25.6%
45.7%
Missouri State Univ.
78%
61.8%
64.5%
MSSU
63%
14.9%
30.2%
Student to faculty ratio 18 to 1
Student to faculty ratio 21 to 1
Student to faculty ratio 18 to 1
Fall 2014 IPEDs Data
Retention Initiatives • Enhance Grade Checks – Yours To Lose, Honors, Humphreys Scholars, Athletes, Project Stay, At Risk, etc. • Mid-Terms are helpful, but they come too late to significantly impact/support many of our students. • Enhance Advising - 15 to Finish, Plans of Study, Meta Majors
Probation Academic Success Strategies (PASS) PASS is designed to assist students who are on academic probation in returning to good academic standing and ultimately graduating from MSSU. Please note that freshmen who ended up on academic probation last semester are enrolled in the PASS program to work with ACTS advisor. These students have a freshman probation hold on their account restricting enrollment or changes to schedule to ACTS advisors.
Student Satisfaction Inventory • Student Affairs and Institutional Effectiveness are currently working on the National Student Satisfaction Survey. • The survey ran from October to December 2017. • 864 MSSU students responded. • Data will be available in February!
Student Data • Looking at over 50 different variables to determine the most significant variables to monitor for MSSU students. • Enrolled – Not Enrolled List: 447 not enrolled • No Advisor List: 197 students
as of January 8th 10 182
4.0 GPAs 3.0 GPA or above
Does It Really Matter? •
MSSU averages 1,000 new freshmen students each fall.
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If we retain 10 additional students per year, that equates to approximately $43,000 (net tuition) retained per year.
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Example: If every academic unit retained 2 students: - 66 students retained = $283,300/year.
What Can We Do? • Be intentional in communicating with students
• New student orientation – UE 100
• Early engagement
• Re-recruiting withdrawn students (outreach at the dept. level)
• Early alert for at-risk issues
• Tutoring
• Exit interviews/surveys for withdrawals
• Supplemental instruction
What Can We Do? Maintain Early Engagement with Students Inside & Outside of Class
Remember we have three types of students: 1. Those that will be fine and graduate regardless of what we do. 2. Those that will struggle and drop off no matter what we do. 3. The majority are in the middle, where intervention and communication might be the factor that tips the scales in their direction for success. Civitas, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Dec. 2016
How does the Great Game of Education support what we do?
And how can it help us impact retention?
Admissions
”Trail Blazers”
Financial Aid
“Don’t Lose Your Marbles” (Part 1 & 2) “Tackle the FAFSA”
Career Services
“I’m Gonna Be”
ACTS
“Major Explorers”
Student Success Center
“Surveys: They’re Not Just for Monkeys!”
Project Stay
“Herding Cats”
Athletics
“Feasting on the Competition”
Music
“Talley’s Tallies”
Registrar
“Taking Articulation to New Heights” “Bowling for W’s”
GGOE Culture Committee & Communication Subcommittee
“Lion Land”
Kinesiology
“P.A.U.S.E. for Pink”
Wellness
“Step It Up!”
Assessment Advisory Committee
“Perpetual Work in Progress”
GGOE Fall Rollout Planning Committee
“Get in the Game”
Biology & Environmental Health
“I Registered”
Residence Life
“Espress-O-Self”
Distance Learning
“Academic Advising”
Human Resources
“On the Right Track” ”HR is Going Marbles!”
Student Activities
“CAB Membership Recruitment” “All Aboard CAB!” “The Magic CAB Bus”
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.” - “The Wreck of the Golden Mary” By Charles Dickens
reparation ttendance nderstood upport ffort
ESTIMATE THE BENEFIT By measuring student behavior and academic performance earlier, we will be able to: •
Identify our “at risk” students early
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Apply intervention strategies
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Determine what possible impact P.A.U.S.E. will have if implemented on campus
IDEA Teaching Essentials Course Evaluation
RESPONSE RATES Fall 2016: Spring 2017: Summer 2017:
36.74% 23.30% 20%
Fall 2017:
72.27%
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy with it.” - Groucho Marx