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It Takes An Institution's Village To Retain A Student: A Comprehensive Look At Two Early Warning System Undergraduate Retention Programs And Administrators' Perceptions Of Students' Experiences And The Retention Services They Provide Students In The Early Warning System Retention Programs, Shelly-Ann Hamilton
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Institutions have implemented many campus interventions to address student persistence/retention, one of which is Early Warning Systems (EWS). However, few research studies show evidence of interventions that incorporate noncognitive factors/skills, and psychotherapy/psycho-educational processes in the EWS. A qualitative study (phenomenological interview and document analysis) of EWS at both a public and private 4-year Florida university was conducted to explore EWS through the eyes of the administrators of the ways administrators make sense of students’ experiences and the services they provide and do not provide to assist students. Administrators’ understanding of noncognitive factors and the executive skills subset and their contribution …