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nice disaggregation of the data. Any idea why the withdrawals? Finance? Time? Failing?

A lot of the withdrawals are students who just disappear and we don't know.

I like the way in which your data clearly conveys that there's a need to do something about success rates in the African American population.

As for enrollment, if your college administrators will not allow you to change degree pathways to incorporate more geology then the counter measure might be increasing the amount of advertising for your program, such as in biology based programs and clubs. As you mentioned most students in sciences take biology so this portion of your population would be a great target for advertising and getting some of them into your geo courses. Perhaps you can get some help from biology faculty along with the counselors to spread the word to intro students that geology is an option for science credits and a great way to diversify your education and understand how geoscience and biosciences are not only relative to one another but completely affect one another.

In regards to Geol 1121, do you have any faculty that are well-known for making their course very hard? I'm the CCA statistician for our department and I noticed certain instructors are extremely tough on their student grades and their data can drastically bring down the results from the norm.

Great presentation! A lot of really good statistical data! I especially liked the starting GPA. That would be interesting to follow. My question - can you figure out a reason why your Historical classes are improving but the Physical are not? That's really interesting. Again nice presentation.....good luck!

I thought the GPA data was interesting. Is retention of black students a campus-wide issue or just a Geology issue? If it is campus-wide there may be more resources available to try different retention strategies since it would impact the entire campus. If it is just a geology issue I like the idea of intelligence agents and increasing metacognition strategies for success not just in geology but for college in general.

Nope.
no ideas.

We can look into whether or not they have PELL funds to give a picture into socioeconomic situation?
Like i said in my experience they are failing because of not doing anything... not because they actually earned an F and did not learn anything.

Registering for federal funds and not doing work to keep the student loans and use if for something else?
Have families and jobs that take up time? (often students register for WAY too many classes they can't handle it)

Wow, you have such great data, and really interesting. It is also really complicated, and I know took a lot to figure out. It seems that you have such different campuses... I am struggling - do you think you should focus on coming together as an institution, talking about what are good targets or should you focus on your own campus given the remarkable differences? I don't know. Maybe Pam Eddy would have thoughts on that.
One other thought - be careful of what some folks call a "deficit" mindset. We all have the students we have and there are few ways to change who is in our classes. We can only change what we do and do our best to serve the students we have as best we can. That does not mean passing everyone, btw, but rather focusing on what we CAN change and do.

Interesting results- nice to see the success rates increasing for all demographic groups in 2019! And good ideas for what to do to work on increasing successs rates in that one course in particular. I wondered about adding some metacognitive strategies? And was curioous if there are things to do to address the "fs" the students who someone wrote in the comments just stop cominng to class? Maybe that's your focus on content and adding guest speakers? Lots of good strategies

Our data resembles math.

Online does worse than face to face (collegewide regardless of ethnicity)

My opinion is that they are ill prepared for college to begin with-- we have no admissions requirements. Georgia is very LOW on the list of state performance for public education.

Give us ideas that will help students 'DO THE WORK to begin with'. Like is aid, it isn't that they are legitimate Fs they are on the class list at the end, they drop off the grid, we can call them, we can email them.... they stop working and earn an F that way.

It looks like we are incapable of doing our jobs.... so we are making BIG adjustments and are going to hold the course content delivery constant to see...