Moraine Valley Retention Efforts

Please use this page as a resource to help you learn from your colleagues, learn more about student success and retention theories, find out about student success, and retention strategies implemented at other colleges and submit your own strategies and ideas that help you engage and retain students.

What's Happening at Moraine Valley?:

Moraine Valley Best Practices (pdf)
A collection of retention strategies submitted by Moraine Valley faculty.

Share Your Best Student Success and Retention Strategy
Do you have a great strategy for enhancing student retention in your classes? Share your ideas and strategies for student success and retention.

Moraine Valley Definition of Retention Survey
We need your help! How do you think retention is best defined at Moraine Valley? Take this survey to learn what definitions have been developed and cast your vote for the most appropriate definition. 

Moraine Valley Resources and books
The Center for Teaching and Learning has outlined materials focused on Student Development and Retention that are available at the Moraine Valley Library.

Milestone Approach to Student Transition and Success
A road map to milestones that students achieve as they become successful at the college and become lifelong learners.

Moraine Valley Language Tutorial
Want to learn a couple of words or phrases in a different language so that you can impress your students? Take a look at the interactive language tutorial that will help you learn general and classroom phrases in the predominant languages spoken on Moraine Valley's campus. Each tutorial contains general information about the country/countries that the language is spoken in, the culture and traditions of those countries, and some learning styles of the populations speaking the highlighted language. The first prototype focuses on the Lithuanian language.

Women in Technology
Learn more about this mentoring group that offers mentoring to female students entering into Moraine Valley's Mechanical Design/CAD, LAN, IT Security, Computer Programming, Networking and Web Design/Development.

Exploring the Retention of Our Students: A Review of Student Success Strategies at Moraine Valley (pdf)
A PowerPoint presentation that discusses themes from the results of the best practices gathered.

Retention Efforts at Moraine Valley (pdf)
Services and programming to help students be successful.

Strategic Priority: Planning, Achieving, Managing Growth (pdf)
A report detailing action Step E4: Identify retention strategies for collegewide implementation.

Retention Themes at Moraine Valley (pdf)
Common themes related to student attrition and retention.