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A STRENGTHS-BASED
RETENTION PROGRAM
BASED ON STUDENT-IDENTIFIED NEEDS
Our retention program is designed to support every student, and front-end loads all students with the success skills and motivation to persist. Making Your Mark is the foundation of our retention program, which is based on developing student strengths versus the old-school system of identifying student weaknesses and providing at-risk students with support after they've run into difficulty.
Our program addresses student-identified needs and concerns. By providing students with the information they want about their education and their future, we can help them create an educational and career vision that they can buy into and commit to.
Making Your Mark is designed to maximize the motivation and learning experience of every student, and to help each one of them take their performance skills to the next level.
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FACULTY-DRIVEN APPROACH
ENRICHED TEACHING ENVIRONMENT
Based on building student strengths and competencies, Making Your Mark is about changing student behavior toward high-performance work habits. This kind of change must take place in the classroom at the program/faculty level. When faculty present the curriculum as professional development for a career, the classroom becomes an enriched learning environment that results in more motivated students.
Faculty can create a strong program culture through relationship building that fosters a sense of belonging. Students with a support system are much more likely to persist.
Student motivation is the #1 predictor of retention. Developing student motivation is at the heart of our retention program.
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