Retention of Students in Higher Education
Ted Greenwood, Program Director
Selected Retention Projects
In the following tables, * indicates program supported by an Officer Grant.
# indicates Sloan support for the program is complete.
Institution |
Purpose |
Contact Person |
IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF FACTORS UNDERLYING COMPLETION RATES |
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Cornell University |
Econometric research to increase understanding of low retention and completion rates nationally among entering freshmen who intend to major in science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields. |
Dr. Ronald Ehrenberg |
MAKING VISIBLE COPMPLETION RATES AND TIME-TO-DEGREE |
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| Washington University in St. Louis | To develop a survey tool to explore why undergraduate students leave science and engineering fields | Dr. Robert Koff 314-935-5946 rkoff@wustl.edu |
| Louisiana State University | To study doctoral student retention and attrition in departments at Louisiana University and to explore the reasons for graduate students' retention and success in six departments there. | Dr. Susan Gardner 207-581-3122 susan.gardner@umit.maine.edu |
INTERVENTION PROJECTS |
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| Uninversity of Washington | To improve the retention and graduation rates for undergraduate engineering students | Dr. Suzanne Brainard 206-543-4810 brainard@engr.washington.edu |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
To improve the retention of underrepresented minority science and engineering undergraduates by understanding what matters to the students and implementing changes in retention programs |
Dr. Angela Byars-Winston |
Carnegie Mellon University |
To improve the recruitment and retention of women in the Ph.D. programs of the School of Computer Science |
Dr. Lenore Blum |
| Swarthmore College* | To enable Swarthmore College to understand the reasons for low retention of certain groups of students in science and engineering | Dr. Lynne Molter 610-328-8078 lmolter1@swarthmore.edu |
| American Chemical Society | To enable the American Chemical Society to pilot a workshop for chemistry faculty | Dr. Mary Kirchoff 202-872-4562 m_kirchhoff@acs.org |
University of Pittsburgh* |
To fund an experiment to determine whether enhancing students’ sense of identification with their undergraduate institution will improve retention rate |
Dr. Janet Schofield |
RESEARCH |
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| University of Colorado* | To enable Dr. Elaine Seymour and colleagues to complete a book about undergraduate research | Dr. Elaine Seymour 828-255-4862 Elaine.seymour@colorado.edu |
Michigan State University* |
To enable Barbara Lovitts to revise for publication her manuscript, Making the Implicit Explicit: Creating Performance Expectations and Assessing the Outcomes of Graduate Education |
Dr. Karen Kloparens |