Transforming Your Institutional Strategy Toward a New Era of Student Success

This session is meant to provide participants with foundational knowledge of the nuanced differences and interconnectedness of the fields and practices of orientation, transition, and retention and how to successfully integrate them across the student experience both in and outside the classroom. Using theories and best practices, participants will learn how to create a nuanced experience that fits their institutional culture and unique student demographics.

First Learning Outcome: Distinguish orientation, transition, and retention from one another 

Second Learning Outcome: Describe how the three elements build an integrated process to assist in student success

Third Learning Outcome: Share institutional approaches to orientation, transition, and retention

Core Competency: Professional Development and Contributions to the Field

Proficiency: Admissions Proficiencies

Presenter(s): 

Joyce Holl NODA-Association for Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education

Joe Thomas University of Colorado Boulder