MSU Fights to Retain Freshman Students
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| 8/21/2007 |
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| The bookstore is busy as college students buy their textbooks. Week’s earlier Minot State University administration was also busy applying for a program to help them retain students. They announced Monday, August 20th, MSU is one of only 13 colleges around the nation in the "Foundations of Excellence in the First College Year" program. "We`re exceptionally exited about this program,” says Dr. David Fuller, President of Minot State University. The program MSU is involved in is special because it aims at one of the main problems all universities have, retaining their freshman students. Research has indicated that new students who are successfully transitioned into college are much more likely to succeed. The hardest students to make the transition are freshman. "For every student we can retain on campus it`s one less student we need to recruit to retain our enrollment,” says Dick Jenkins, MSU Vice-President of Student Affairs. Results vary, but research shows over 25% of all college freshman drop out. It’s an issue all universities try to solve. "My number one objective is how to transform the campus for our first-year students,” says Gary Rabe, MSU Vice-President for Academic Affairs. MSU will closely watch the programs they already have in place for college freshman and retention and then will be able to compare them to other colleges, creating a network of the very best in ideas. Over 300 colleges have already taken part in this project. "We fully support and we`re glad to be a partner in this process,” says Wade Regier, the MSU Student Government President. The Foundations of Excellence program fits well with the strategic plan already taking place at MSU. "The strategic plan, the direction, the vision 2013 is looking at creating an engaged campus and an engaged place,” says Dr. Fuller. There are 500 freshman who enroll at MSU every year. In the past 8 years MSU has retained on average 63% of their college freshman. |
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