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First Year Student Success Initiative: Academic Support Services Working Group Charge, Jeffrey E. Hecker

General University of Maine Publications

Student success is central to UMaine's mission, values, reputation and fiscal health. Improving first-year student success is a major focus for Academic Affairs and Student Affairs in 2018- 2019. On September 27, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost launched the public phase of this initiative. The goal: to develop an integrated plan of actions that will result in improved first year student success as defined by first year retention.

Charge to Academic Support Services: Develop a set of recommendations about ways that our student academic support services can better serve first year students.

Faculty Forum : First-Year Student Success, University Of Maine Office Of Academic Affairs

General University of Maine Publications

The first year of a student’s academic experience sets the tone for their academic success or failure. Every year from 20% to 25% of first-year students do not return to UMaine for a second year of study. There are a variety of factors that contribute to students’ success (or failure) in their first year.

In 2018-19, the Divisions of Academic Affairs and Student Life will collaborate to develop a plan to improve first-year students’ experience so that more students build a strong foundation for continued success.

At this Faculty Forum, Provost Hecker shared data and analyses that shed light on …

First-Year Retention And Student Success At Umaine (Exploratory Analysis), University Of Maine Office Of Institutional Research

General University of Maine Publications

This report comprises exploratory data and brief narrative regarding first-year retention and student success at UMaine.

The retention analyses include first-year, full-time students who matriculated at UMaine in 2014 through 2016; the success rate analyses include first-year, full-time students who matriculated in 2015 through 2017. This report is intended to provide baseline data for informing the efforts of the First-Year Experience Steering Committee and working groups.