2019 Annual Meeting

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Counseling Center Retention and Graduation Rates (Room Governor's Square 12)

31 May 19
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: CHWP Elective, Credit-CME, Credit-CNE, Credit-CPEU, Credit-NASW, Credit-NBCC, Credit-PsyCE, Management, Session Badge - Leadership, Session Badge - Measurement

CNE:1.5  CHES:1.5  PsyCE:1.5  NBCC:1.5  NASW:1.5  CPEU:1.5  CHWP:1

Leadership, Measurement, Management

After this session, attendees should be able to:

  1. Discuss research related to retention and graduation rates.
  2. Explain how to measure retention rates and graduation rates for your office.
  3. Identify ways to use the data to benefit your office.

Program Abstract:
Counseling services works with many at-risk and fragile students - would be expected that retention and graduation rates would be lower for these students using. The research shows otherwise. This program will briefly discuss this research, but focuses on how one counseling center used the data provided by institutional research to show that students that had utilized counseling services had significantly higher graduation rates and similar retention rates to the general student population.