student success retention and student success at umkc
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Student SuccessStudent Success
Retention and Student Success at UMKC
Why Retention Matters
Why is Retention Important?
When students are successful it benefits the student as well as their community; earning potential and career opportunities increase with the level of education.
Departments are losing top performing students.
Retaining students is less expensive than recruiting new students.
First year persistence and graduation rates are standard measures of academic quality as well as measures of institutional effectiveness.
National Retention and Graduation Rates
National Retention at a Glance
Improved freshmen persistence increases the likelihood that students will complete a program of study and graduate. This creates an important link between persistence and graduation rates.
Freshman year is the most critical period for student retention; approximately 20% of students are not retained their second year.
Approximately 41% of all college students drop out within 6 years of entry.
Although we are focusing heavily on freshmen persistence, the ultimate goal is to improve student success and retention at every level and, ultimately, our graduation rates.
National Attrition Rate by Year in College
First Year 20%
Second Year 10%
Third Year 9%
Source: CSRDE, 2009-10 Cohort from Public institutions with undergraduate enrollment from 5,000 to 17,999
Selectivity1st Year Persistence Rate
4 Year Graduation Rate
5 Year Graduation Rate
6 Year Graduation Rate
Highly Selective
84.9% 47.2% 64.6% 67.9%
Selective 77.0% 29.0% 48.5% 54.1%
UMKC 70.7% 18.8% 32.0% 44.4%
Moderately Selective
72.6% 21.8% 39.9% 45.3 %
Less Selective
69.6% 15.5% 31.2% 37.8%
National Graduation Rates in Public Institutions by Selectivity
Retention and Graduation Rates at UMKC
Average Rates of Cohort Departure for Fall 2000-Fall 2009 Cohorts
UMKC Persistence Rates
Retention and Graduation of Minority Students are of Particular Concern
Retention and graduation rates are consistently lower for under-represented students
Selective/Public Institutions
1st Year Retention Rate 4 Year Grad Rate 5 Year Grad Rate 6 Year Grad Rate
UMKC UMKC UMKC UMKC
American Indian 66.1% 53.5% 14.6% 3.6% 29.3% 8.7% 34.5% 14.3%
Black 78.1% 64.5% 23.0% 9.5% 41.7% 22.0% 47.9% 26.2%
Hispanic 76.0% 69.3% 20.9% 11.9% 40.4% 17.8% 47.6% 31.9%
Asian 83.0% 82.6 % 23.2% 13.6% 45.5% 23.2% 55.6% 60.9%
Nonresident International
77.7% 83.2 % 32.5% 33.7% 48.5% 51.1% 53.2% 57.6%
White 77.9% 68.7 % 31.1% 21.2% 51.1% 34.8% 56.4% 45.0%
All Average 78.0% 69.3% 29.1% 18.3% 49.0% 31.2% 54.8% 43.9%
Source: Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange, 2000-08 cohorts at 86 selective public institutions
National Retention and Graduation by Minority Status
4 Retention Myths
Myth #1
Myth: UMKC students are not “good” students or not as good as students at other urban institutions.
Reality: Incoming UMKC freshmen have high school performance and standardized test profiles similar to peer institutions.
UMKC Peer Comparison
ACT Acceptance Persistence Graduation
Top 10% HS GPA 25th- 75th Rate Rate Rate
UMKC 31% 3.3 21-28 62% 72% 45%
SUNY at Buffalo 28% 3.3 23-28 52% 88% 66%
Temple 21% 3.4 21-27 61% 87% 67%
Illinois - Chicago 28% -- 21-26 63% 79% 54%
Cincinnati 22% 3.4 22-27 67% 83% 55%
George Mason 21% 3.6 22-28 63% 85% 63%
UAB 27% 3.5 21-27 84% 78% 39%
Louisville 25% 3.5 21-28 73% 78% 48%
USF 35% 3.7 23-28 48% 84% 48%
VCU 16% 3.4 21-26 59% 83% 51%
Myth #2
Myth: A large proportion of UMKC students are admitted to the university by exception.
Reality: On average, UMKC admits 28% of an incoming class by exception.
Proportion of Freshmen Students Admitted by Exception
UMKC Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning
Summary of Nature of Deficiencies
UMKC Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning
Number of Students Percentage of Students (a) (b) (a) (b) Not Not Not Not Meeting Meeting Meeting Meeting Core ACT/Class Core ACT/Class Course Rank Both (a) Course Rank Both (a)Campus Total Criterion Criterion and (b) Criterion Criterion and (b)
MU 5,638 671 362 130 11.9% 6.4% 2.3%
UMKC 820 86 69 73 10.5% 8.4% 8.9%
S&T 1,075 107 24 3 10.0% 2.2% 0.3%
UMSL 379 100 42 32 26.4% 11.1% 8.4%
System 7,912 964 497 238 12.2% 6.3% 3.0%
Percentage of Students Missing High School Core Courses
UMKC Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning
Foreign SocialCampus English Fine Arts Language Math Science Studies
MU 2.0% 3.5% 3.6% 6.5% 1.0% 1.1%
UMKC 2.3% 2.6% 8.2% 11.1% 1.6% 2.2%
S&T 2.4% 2.8% 5.4% 2.9% 0.6% 1.1%
UMSL 17.7% 6.1% 6.6% 24.3% 3.4% 6.1%
System 2.9% 3.4% 4.5% 7.3% 1.1% 1.5%
Myth #3
Myth: UMKC freshmen are working too many hours.
Reality: UMKC freshmen do NOT work significantly more than the national average for freshmen in urban institutions.
UMKC Freshmen Who Work >10 hours –
Comparison to Urban Universities
Source: National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).
UMKC Freshmen Who Work On-Campus vs. Off-Campus
Source: National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).
Myth #4
Myth: UMKC freshmen do not perform well academically; most non-persistors receive academic disqualification.
Reality: Well over half of the freshmen who leave UMKC leave in good standing.
56% leave with an overall GPA of 2.0 or above. 28% leave with an overall GPA of 3.0 or above.
Source: UMKC Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning
GPAs of First-time, Full-time Freshmen Who Left UMKC in 2009
Source: College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success. Alan Seidman, Editor.
“We must build partnerships across campus. Student success takes the collaborative efforts of all members of the campus, faculty, staff and administration.”
Vincent Tinto, Leaving College