Five Year Retention Plan
Syracuse University Five-Year Retention Plan
April 30, 2001
Prepared by: Retention Council and Retention Plan Steering Committee
Table of Contents
| Section 1. | Introduction and Goal |
| Section 2. | The Issues |
| Section 3. | The Action Plan and Recommendations |
| Section 4. | Program Timeline and Anticipated Impact |
| Section 5. | Conclusion |
| Table 1: | Implementation schedule for general and targeted programs |
| Table 2: | Estimated number of students retained through selected interventions by cohort |
| Appendices | |
| Section A. | Background and History of the Retention Effort at Syracuse |
| Section B. | Mandate from the Vice Chancellor and Provost, 1999 |
| Section C. | Peer Institutions and Six-Year Graduation Rate Comparison |
| Section D. | The Five-Year Strategic Plan to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates |
| Appendices Tables and Figure | |
| Table 1: | Model variations of the five-year plan |
| Figure A: | Model variations flow and sequence |
| Table 2: | Sub-population/Intervention by year of the plan |
| Table 3: | Estimated number of students retained through selected interventions by cohort |


