Community as a Retention Tool

The Campus Community Life Cycle: From Admissions to Alumni Presented by the Imagine America Foundation and ED MAP, Inc. Session 2: Community as a Retention Tool April 20, 2010

About the Imagine America Foundation
The Imagine America Foundation (IAF) has been serving the career college community since 1982. IAF provides scholarships for education, awards, financial aid information, sector research, faculty training, and honors achievement in career education.
The Foundation has grown to support more than 500 career colleges across the United States and Puerto Rico and provides valuable information on financial aid and scholarships.
For more information, please visit www.imagine-america.org

Imagine America Scholarship and Award Programs
To date, through the Imagine America programs, the Foundation has presented over $40 million in scholarships and awards to students enrolling at career colleges and universities all across the United States and Puerto Rico.
Imagine America High School Scholarship
Imagine America Promise Scholarship Program
Military Award Program (MAP)
LDRSHIP Award
Adult Skills Education Program (ASEP)

Imagine America Foundation Research
Research
Filling America's Skilled Worker Shortage: The Role of Career Colleges (2008)
Fact Book 2009: A Profile of Career Colleges and Universities (2009)
Graduating At-Risk Students: A Cross-Sector Analysis (2010)
Upcoming Research
ROI of Faculty Development: A Case Study (Summer 2010)
Fact Book 2010: A Profile of Career Colleges and Universities (Summer 2010)
Responsible Borrowing Online Tool (Fall 2010)

About ED MAP, Inc.
ED MAP is an educational-content management company whose unique market insights and perspectives separate it from traditional academic bookstores. We leverage extensive relationships with academic publishers and educational institutions to create, acquire, store, deliver and monetize content for educational markets.
ED MAP is committed to helping institutions develop new approaches to course materials that can reduce their logistical and administrative burdens. Additionally, these approaches can reduce students’ costs for course materials while supporting their academic performance.

ED MAP, Inc.
ED MAP provides our clients guidance and assistance for selection, editorial, production, logistics and customization activities. Our clients include proprietary and career colleges, K-12 online programs and institutions, traditional and multi-campus systems, continuing education and professional associations.
Additional information can be found at our website: www.edmap.biz

Webinar Housekeeping
Time for Q&A will be held at the end of this presentation. Please submit questions at anytime during the presentation and we’ll answer as many as possible.
This presentation, and other sessions from this series, will be posted at SlideShare.net. More information will be provided at the end of the presentation.
You will receive an invite for the next session in this series that also contains a link to the archived presentations.

Community As a Retention Tool: Creating, Maintaining and Realizing the Impact of a True Educational Community
Presented by:
Dr. Kevin Kirk, President
Jamie Kidder,
Director of Student Services

Community As a Retention Tool: Creating, Maintaining and Realizing the Impact of a True Educational Community
Giving you tools to build a community within your institution to promote retention.

Poll Question #1
Does your institution focus on:
Retaining students
Creating an environment so students
become graduates?

Creating the Connection

Maintaining the Connection

Poll Question #2
Should all faculty / staff be involved in maintaining the student connection with the institution?
Yes
No

The Buy-In

What Are We Buying Into?
Treatment
Support
Customer Service
Constant Communication

Continual Drive for Excellence
Loyalty
Continual Positive Interaction
Flexibility
Encouragement

Encouragement
Recognition
Interest in Success
Gratitude
Acknowledgement

All Faculty and Staff
CARES
Be Nice Culture
21 Day Principle
Open Door Policy

All Faculty and Staff
24 Hour Rule
OTSU Principle
Good to Great
Corporate Core
Values

What Impact Do They Have?

Poll Question #3
Is your college’s community a change agent in your students’ lives?
Yes
No

Questions & Answers

Upcoming Session
“ The Campus Community Life Cycle: From Admissions to Alumni”
Session 3: “Maintaining Community After Graduation: Benefits to the Institution”
- May 25, 2010 at 2 pm ET

Archived Session #1
The first session of The Campus Community Life Cycle: From Admissions to Alumni, “ Integrating New Students Into the Community, ” is available for your review.
Go to SlideShare.net and search by presentation name
- or -
Follow this link: http://www.slideshare.net/EDMAP/cfakepathwebinar-2010-session-1-master-finalv2

Contact Information Community Care College
Dr. Kevin Kirk
President
Email: kkirk@communitycarecollege.edu
Jamie Kidder
Director of Student Services
Email: jkidder@communitycarecollege.edu

Contact Information IAF and ED MAP, Inc.
Imagine America Foundation
Bob Martin: President
Email: bobm@imagine-america.org
Jenny Faubert: Manager of Marketing and Project Development
Email: jennyf@imagine-america.org
ED MAP
Chris Carroll: Director of Business Development
Email: ccarroll@edmap.biz

Thank You for Joining Us Today! We hope to see you May 25, 2010 at 2 pm ET for “ Maintaining Community After Graduation: Benefits to the Institution”

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