Case 2: Recommendation Report: Improve Tarleton’s Student Retention
You have been hired as the head technical communicator in the Vice President for Academic Affairs. You have been tasked with researching and creating a recommendation report to “Improve Tarleton’s Student Retention” problem that will be directed to the Student Enrollment Management department. You should research and find-
You are in charge of a small team of technical communicators who will be collaborating on completing this report. In addition to the formal report you will produce, you will also be responsible to write –
First you will need to identify Tarleton's statistics:
You will also want to know who Tarleton's identified peer and aspirant institutions are to compare us. Here is last year's article with that information, Tarleton Updates Peer and Aspirant Universities.
To look up complete reported statistics use IPEDS. (this is the standard data required by the US Gov. for all state or federally funded schools)
Next you will research reasons students leave college and recommendations on how to retain them.
Start in the Education databases. I would specifically recommend the Professional Development Collection.
Use terms like: