IMPROVING STUDENT RETENTION IN PROFESSIONAL STUDIO BASED CURRICULA: THE ROLE OF A FIRST YEAR SEMINAR

In an effort to provide insight into a strategy for increasing student retention, students enrolled in a first year seminar were paired with a matched comparison group, and retention of the 1,853 students in the two groups was compared over a period of four years. Results indicated significantly greater retention over a period of four years for students enrolled in the seminar. Review of the literature indicates that while such seminars are gaining in popularity, longitudinal studies of their effectiveness using matched comparison groups are lacking. In addition to expanding the research base of the first year seminars, this article also presents the background of the seminar and studies regarding the first year seminar that are relevant to retention.

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Untangling the Factors that Affect Student Retention: A Quantitative Study of the Relationships among First-Year Seminar Program Characteristics and Instructor Type (Full-Time and Part-Time)

10.15760/etd.7300 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Christina Shafer

Keyword(s):

Student Retention ◽

Quantitative Study ◽

First Year ◽

Full Time ◽

Part Time ◽

Program Characteristics ◽

First Year Seminar

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Testing the Effect of UNIV1000 on Retention in a Regional University in the US

Journal of Education and Learning ◽

10.5539/jel.v9n5p198 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 198

Author(s):

Agnitra Roy Choudhury ◽

Mariano Runco

Keyword(s):

Student Retention ◽

Probit Model ◽

Retention Rates ◽

First Year ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Regional University ◽

The Us ◽

Market Opportunities ◽

First Year Seminar ◽

Perform Survival Analysis

Abstract Student retention is a major concern for many universities. We use observational data from a regional university located in Alabama to test whether taking a first-year seminar improves student retention rates. Using a linear probit model, we find that taking a first-year seminar course is negatively correlated with retention rates, after controlling for several confounding effects. We perform survival analysis and find that the students who take first year seminar courses have a better survival rate for retention than those that do not take the course. We also find that other macro and micro economic factors are equally important in improving student retention rates, such as labor market opportunities and competition from similar universities.

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Moderating role of social support on first-year college student outcomes

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e683152011-436 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel A. Dickson ◽

Colleen S. Conley ◽

Kunal A. Patel ◽

Daniel Cunningham

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

College Student ◽

Student Outcomes ◽

First Year ◽

First Year College ◽

College Student Outcomes ◽

Moderating Role

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Internationalizing General Education at the Introductory Level: The First-Year Seminar On Political Self-Determination and Web-Based Political Research

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1547890 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Fletcher McClellan ◽

Oya Ozkanca ◽

Wayne A. Selcher

Keyword(s):

General Education ◽

Self Determination ◽

First Year ◽

Web Based ◽

Political Research ◽

First Year Seminar

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The Fox Diet

10.1093/oso/9780190923624.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Yochai Benkler ◽

Robert Faris ◽

Hal Roberts

Keyword(s):

First Year ◽

Right Wing ◽

Justice Department ◽

Fox News ◽

The Core ◽

Deep State ◽

Media Ecosystem ◽

Conservative Media ◽

The Right

This chapter focuses on the role of the dominant player in conservative media, Fox News, during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency. It looks at three case studies to illustrate how Fox News used its position at the core of the right-wing media ecosystem repeatedly to mount propaganda attacks in support of Trump: the Michael Flynn firing in March 2017, when Fox adopted the “deep state” framing of the entire controversy; the James Comey firing and Robert Mueller appointment in May 2017; when Fox propagated the Seth Rich murder conspiracy; and in October and November, when the arrests of Paul Manafort and guilty plea of Flynn seemed to mark a new level of threat to the president, Fox reframed the Uranium One story as an attack on the integrity of the FBI and Justice Department officials in charge of the investigation.

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1702–1703

10.1093/oso/9780198802440.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Frances Harris

Keyword(s):

First Year ◽

The Third

The third chapter traces the beginning of the partnership through the first year of Queen Anne’s reign, as Marlborough persuades Godolphin to return to office as Lord Treasurer and his ministerial partner, with the declared aim of ‘moderation’, that is, holding the balance between the Tories and Whigs on the basis of their support of the war. The role of Queen Anne’s husband Prince George is examined and Marlborough’s and Godolphin’s separate roles are explored, along with the significance of their extensive correspondence. Marlborough is unexpectedly successful in his first campaign, but his determination to obtain a grant from Parliament to support his dukedom jeopardizes Godolphin’s project for war-supply, and their rival Rochester contests control of the Treasury and therefore the war. Marlborough forces Rochester’s resignation and the partnership is confirmed when Marlborough’s only son dies shortly before he leaves for the Continent and he adopts Godolphin’s son as his heir.

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Sperm Cryopreservation in American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus Ruber): Influence of Cryoprotectants and Seminal Plasma Removal

Animals ◽

10.3390/ani11010203 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 203

Author(s):

María Gemma Millán de la Blanca ◽

Eva Martínez-Nevado ◽

Cristina Castaño ◽

Juncal García ◽

Berenice Bernal ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Seminal Plasma ◽

Genetic Material ◽

First Year ◽

Sperm Cryopreservation ◽

Straight Line ◽

The Family ◽

Second Year ◽

American Flamingo ◽

Phoenicopterus Ruber

The American flamingo is a useful model for the development of successful semen cryopreservation procedures to be applied to threatened related species from the family Phoenicopteridae, and to permit genetic material banking. Current study sought to develop effective sperm cryopreservation protocols through examining the influences of two permeating cryoprotectants and the seminal plasma removal. During two consecutive years (April), semen samples were collected and frozen from American flamingos. In the first year, the effect of two permeating cryoprotectants, DMA (dimethylacetamide) (6%) or Me2SO (dimethylsulphoxide) (8%), on frozen–thawed sperm variables were compared in 21 males. No differences were seen between DMA and Me2SO for sperm motility, sperm viability, and DNA fragmentation after thawing. In the second year, the role of seminal plasma on sperm cryoresistance was investigated in 31 flamingos. Sperm samples were cryopreserved with and without seminal plasma, using Me2SO (8%) as a cryoprotectant. The results showed that samples with seminal plasma had higher values than samples without seminal plasma for the following sperm variables: Straight line velocity (22.40 µm/s vs. 16.64 µm/s), wobble (75.83% vs. 69.40%), (p < 0.05), linearity (62.73% vs. 52.01%) and straightness (82.38% vs. 73.79%) (p < 0.01); but acrosome integrity was lower (55.56% vs. 66.88%) (p < 0.05). The cryoresistance ratio (CR) was greater in samples frozen with seminal plasma than without seminal plasma for CR-progressive motility (138.72 vs. 54.59), CR-curvilinear velocity (105.98 vs. 89.32), CR-straight line velocity (152.77 vs. 112.58), CR-average path velocity (122.48 vs. 98.12), CR-wobble (111.75 vs. 102.04) (p < 0.05), CR-linearity (139.41 vs. 113.18), and CR-straightness (124.02 vs. 109.97) (p < 0.01). This research demonstrated that there were not differences between Me2SO and DMA to successful freezing sperm of flamingos; seminal plasma removal did not provide a benefit for sperm cryopreservation.

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