Launch: The Design, Implementation, and Retention Results of a Pre-Orientation Retreat (Webinar)

Hosted by the Institutional Research and Analytics and the Center for Teaching and Learning.  Led by Kelly Carter Merrill of Randolph-Macon College.  This webinar shares the design, curriculum, and evaluation results of an academic transition success initiative at a small private liberal arts college. Launch was a pre-Welcome Week adventure retreat, in August of 2015 and again 2016, aimed at student populations who have traditionally experienced lower retention rates at our college. Through Launch, we sought to provide social and academic strategies for these students, with the hope of improving their retention to their second year. This webinar describes the theory-based design of the retreat, implementation logistics, and the retention and evaluation results.

Anyone unable to attend, please send an e-mail to (joanie.hendricks@wright.edu) who will send you the webinar link - which is available after the live webinar.