Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange

1700 Asp Ave.
Norman, OK 73072

Phone: 405-325-2158
Fax: 405-325-7309
csrde@ou.edu

NEWS

October 23, 2007

Award Winners from the National Symposium on Student Retention in Milwaukee

The 12th annual CSRDE $2000 Best Practices Award was presented to Illinois College for their paper titled “Early Intervention at Illinois College: The Politics, Potentials, and Perils of Using ACT’s College-Readiness Benchmarks”. Congratulations on a job well done!

The 1st annual CSRDE $750 Institutional Research Leadership in Student Retention Award was presented to University of Minnesota for their paper titled "Modeling Student Academic Success: Does Usage of Campus Recreation Facilities Make a Difference?". Congratulations on being the first to receive this award.

A special Director's Award for the paper which best addresses an issue of current interest and need in the field of student retention and success was presented to Lander University. Their paper was titled "Engagement of the Online Learner". Congratulation on this achievement.

Webinar Series

FREE WEBINAR!!! InsideTrack will have a session titled "Student Coaching – a Promising New Practice for Student Success and Student Retention". This will be on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 from 1pm to 2pm CST. Don't miss out on this special opportunity to see our webinars in action.

For more information about our monthly webinar series click here.

Recruiting for 2007-08 Membership Year

It's not too late to join the consortium. Join before December 17th to have adequate time to be oriented to the survey and to gather data. Click here for more information.

Newsletter
The CSRDE Exchange, our quarterly newsletter which provides in-depth information about news of interest to the CSRDE members and others in the higher education community, is published in January, April, July and October of each year. To request this publication, click here.

August 22, 2007

Upcoming National Symposium on Student Retention

Are you registered yet? The symposium in Milwaukee is coming up fast (September 24-26). Make sure you are registered so you don't miss out.

This year we will be having Cliff Adelman, Institute for Higher Education Policy; Steve Robbins, ACT, Inc.; Laurie Schreiner, Azusa Pacific University; and Richard Rafes, East Central University as our guest speakers. We will have pre- and post-conference workshops, member presentations, information sessions, and a fun evening event. Don't miss out!!!

For more information click here.

Main CSRDE Study Completed

The main CSRDE study for the 4-year and 2-year institutions was completed and distributed to our members in June and July respectively.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Completed

This year the STEM study was completed in August and made available electronically through our portal site. This optional survey for 4-year institutions, follows first-time, full-time, baccalaureate degree-seeking freshmen majoring in the STEM fields. For more information about our surveys...

New Webinar Series

Beginning in October, CSRDE is introducing a series of webinars for anyone that is interested in student retention and success. Come join us in this exciting new experience. For more details click here.

New Reporting Server in Production

We have a new reporting server in the makings. This new server allows CSRDE members the ability to create their own peer reports along with allowing better access to student retention and success materials. Keep watching our site for more details and the future launch date.

To see archived news click here.

The Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange at the University of Oklahoma is a consortium of two-year and four-year institutions dedicated to achieving the highest levels of student success through collaboratively sharing data, knowledge, and innovation.

CSRDE is a sponsored activity of the Center for Institutional Data Exchange and Analysis at