Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Research University Leadership: Evaluation of the Student Retention Effort, ISBN 978-157440-488-3
The 86-page study gives detailed data on how 249 university leaders perceive the effectiveness of their university student retention effort. Specific data is presented for their views on certain key retention-oriented student services such as tutoring, academic advising, financial aid and student personal counseling, as well as their views on retention training for faculty, efforts to foster student inclusion and much more. The study also includes the opinions of university leaders on how their universities foster retention of key student groups and demographics with specific data for their views of the retention effort for international students, and ethnic and racial minority students.
Survey participants give their opinion of what are the best features of their university’s retention efforts, and evaluate their own personal level of involvement in the retention effort.
Data in the reports is broken out by a broad range of criteria including: age, gender, academic title, and compensation level of respondent, and university ranking, public/private status and country of origin of the respondents affiliated institution. The sample is comprised of deans, provosts, chancellors, trustees, vice presidents, upper level administration directors, academic department heads, and distinguished professors.
Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:
· Asked to assign a letter grade to the overall performance of their university’s student retention efforts, 34.5% of the respondents awarded an A, 46% B, 10.5% C, 1% D, and 0% F
· Respondents from Australian universities gave their schools poor marks for retention: 4% A, 44% B, 32% C and 8% D. Those in the UK gave high marks: 71% A, 14% B.
· Asked about how well their institution fosters inclusion and student participation, 5% respond poor, 23% acceptable, 34% good and 23% excellent.
· 27% of Deans, Provosts, and Chancellors report that they are significantly or deeply involved in the student retention effort.
To view a table of contents, an excerpt, a list of the institutional affiliations of survey participants ---– go to our general website at www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at 212-736-2316.
Respondents were drawn from major research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. A list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants is below:
Australian National University
Barnard College
Baylor College of Medicine
Brown University
Carleton University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland
Curtin University
Drexel University
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Griffith University
Imperial College London
James Cook University
Lehigh University
Massey University
McGill University
Michigan State University
Monash University
Penn State College of Medicine
Penn State University
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Queen Mary University of London
Rice University
Rutgers University
Saint Louis University
Swinburne University of Technology
Teachers College, Columbia University
The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
University of Idaho
University College Dublin
University of Alberta
University of Birmingham
University of California, Davis
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California--Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Florida
University of Idaho
University of Maryland
University of Maryland--Baltimore
University of Maryland--College Park
University of Michigan
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
University of Michigan School of Information
University of Michigan-Flint
University of Missouri
University of Nottingham
University of Pittsburgh
University of South Florida
University of Tasmania
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
University of Toronto
University of Toronto Scarborough
University of Utah
University of Western Australia
VCUArts in Qatar
Virginia Commonwealth University
Washington State University
Washington University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University
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