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A case study to investigate retention efforts at Mt. Hood Community College

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  • This case study describes and analyzes the experiences of Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) in its implementation of four retention interventions. Each of the four interventions are described in detail. Discussion is framed within the context that retention is a by-product of institutional renewal brought about by implementing interventions that have campus-wide impacts. Discussion and analysis probe the interventions to reveal their benefits to the college, addressing the question as to whether MHCC is being effective in its retention planning. Discussion and recommendations are framed around three insights discovered in the course of the case study. These three insights are seen as key factors in retention intervention. Each of the insights is followed by recommendations intended to mitigate gaps in retention planning that the insights discovered. The insights and recommendations are: 1. Intervention needs to be holistic. Two recommendations were suggested to strengthen the holistic approach. The first of these is a mentoring program, both peer and faculty. The second recommendation is to strengthen faculty-student-staff relationships outside the classroom by an intervention such as the establishment of learning communities. 2. Intervention needs to use high quality information. Recommendations were to pay more attention to less than full-time students, to develop a formal withdrawal policy and process, and to collect additional student intention data. 3. Intervention needs to track points of student economic impact. The single recommendation for insight three is to thoroughly track and analyze the points where students interact economically with the college. This is thought to be crucial as the areas of economic contact play an active not passive role in enrollment and retention. The case study found that MHCC's experiences with intervention are consistent with literature findings, have been effective for MHCC, and the insights and recommendations may be helpful to other community colleges in retention planning.
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