Mid-Conference Workshops

(no fee to attend workshops)

Midconference Workshop on Retention, Parts 1 & 2
Monday, October 31
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Campus-Based Strategies to Retain Students in Higher Education
This two-part workshop will provide national data on student departure and graduation rates, describe issues that impact a student's decision to leave or stay at college, and present an empirically-based model for student success, inclusive of various strategies to help your institution improve persistence and graduation rates for all students, especially those who are first-generation and Pell-eligible. All participants will walk away with useful materials to help them strategize for success.

Presenters:
Jay Goff, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Retention Management, Saint Louis University
Kimberly Landis, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Educational Policy Institute
W. Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute

Midconference Workshop on Rankings, Parts 1 &2
Tuesday, November 1
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

College and University Rankings Discussion: Can We Improve How We Assess the Undergraduate Experience?

The consensus of the 2010 Executive Forum on College and University Rankings was that prospective students and the higher education community could benefit from a new means of assessing institutional effectiveness in delivering value-added undergraduate education.

The 2011 College and University Rankings Discussion Forum will pick up where the 2010 Forum left off and provide historical and analytical perspectives along with thoughtful discussion of how to best provide the public with insightful data about institutions' dedication to, and success at, enhanced student learning. The 2011 Forum sets out to develop a clear set of principles for college ratings that could lead to meaningful reforms of the current systems through the development of standard institutional assessment clusters and implementation strategies.

Presenters:
Jason Lane, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, University of Albany
Mark David Milliron, Deputy Director for Higher Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Media Panelists:
Robert Morse, Director of Data Research, U.S. News
Doug Lederman, Editor,Inside Higher Education
Paul Glastris, Editor in Chief, Washington Monthly, publisher of "America's 50 Best Community Colleges"