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Student Success and Retention Resources

Moraine Valley Retention Efforts

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External Retention Links

 

 

 

 

Moraine Valley Retention Efforts

Moraine Valley's Definition of Retention

Retention—student success that is shaped by learning-centered environment, which focuses on the needs, expectations and goals of our diverse students by promoting successful learning partnerships through completion of college studies that are aligned to the academic and social achievement aspirations of students.

What's Happening at Moraine Valley?:
Please use this page as a resource to help you learn from your colleagues 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.

Moraine Valley Best Practices (pdf)
A collection of retention strategies submitted by Moraine Valley faculty
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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 Resources and Books
The Center for Teaching and Learning has outlined materials focused on Student Development and Retention that are available in 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 programs.

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.

 

Attention Faculty and Staff:
Be a Star
Make a Difference!

We invite you to contribute your ideas and strategies for retaining students at Moraine Valley Community College. You can “make a difference” by helping us develop methods to keep students in classes so that they achieve their goals.

 

You are encouraged to use the online form to submit strategies that are important to student success and retention. The Student Success and Retention steering team will review the submitted strategies each month and select two to highlight. The selected “stars” will receive a certificate and be featured in Valley View and in an all-staff e-mail.


May - June Stars
Bob Palagi
Gayle Wengelewski
 

April Stars

Donna Lauritzen
Amy Williamson

 

March Stars

Phil Bierdz
Feiruz "Faye" Shehadi

 

February Stars

Carol Antosz
Tiffany Robinson

 

January Stars

Gena Bradford
Raiana Mearns

 

December Stars

Enza Piech
Cara Williams

 

November Stars
Dawn Fry
Donna McCauley

 
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