FAQs for Schools on Facebook: a dialog with Jeff Bohrer

Jeff Bohrer had a sit down conversation at Wisconsin-Madison about our Schools on Facebook product.  He brought up some great questions we hear quite often, so I figured I’d repost here:
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* For how long is our institutional data kept at third-party host?
Seeing as how the value increases over time because students and alumni are able [...]

Notes on ACT: What Works in Student Retention? All Surveyed Colleges

ACT: What Works in Student Retention?
These notes were put together by Jill Chiang, Berkeley.

In an all college survey, only about half the colleges were able to identify an individual responsible for coordinating retention strategies (51.7%) and have established an improvement goal for retention of students from the first to second year (47.2%). Only 33.1% [...]

Academic Advising and Student Retention, Summary of two papers by Joe Cuseo

Recently the problem of student attrition has been presented to me as something our Facebook solution might impact.  So, I’ve been digging.  By far the best read on this are written by Joseph Cuseo, a professor of Psychology at Marymount College.  I’m going to highlight some of his points about retention and brick-and-mortar solutions.
First, it’s [...]