1. By: Joanne von Pronay & Peggy Byers
An Innovative Approach to Promoting Student Retention Building a Community to Empower Students in Connecting a College Education and Future Careers
By: Joanne von Pronay & Peggy Byers

2. overview Career Cluster Initiative Purpose Creation Action Plan
Best Practices
Retention Planning

3. WhaT Do YoU WaNt To Be WheN YoU GroW uP ?

4. Retention Research
Research suggests that student commitment to educational and career goals is perhaps the strongest factor associated with student persistence to degree completion. (Wyckoff)
If students develop a viable plan for identifying a college major and related career that is compatible with their abilities, interests and values, then their overall satisfaction with college should increase. (Cuseo)

5. Our Roles
Recruitment
Providing information and tools to educate future students and the community about academic program offerings and associated career pathways
Advising
Guiding students developmentally through the process of exploring self, researching options & discovering a compatible major and associated careers.

6. Career Cluster Initiative
Connect Education and Careers
Engage high school students early
Guide “exploratory students”
Educate students with declared majors
Improve retention

7. Publication History University Collaboration
National Career Cluster Model
Educational Pathway Flyers
Career Cluster Guidebooks

8. UAA Career Clusters Architecture & Construction
Arts, A/V Technology & Communications
Business, Management & Administration
Education & Training
Health Sciences
Hospitality & Tourism
Human Services
Information Technology
Law, Government & Public Safety
Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences
Science, Mathematics, Engineering & Research
Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

10. Pathway Publicatons Educational Pathway Admissions Information
Program Highlights & Industry Standards
Academic Program Courses
Contact Information

11. Career Cluster Guidebooks
Which Path Do I Travel
Explore Who You Are
Expand Your Horizons
Map Out the Possibilities
Investigate Your Options
Discover Your Direction

12. Action Plan Distribution Plan
Training & Information for Staff & Faculty
Classes & Presentations for Students
Career Cluster Cafes
Technology Integration
Display Area
External Community Partners

13. Best Practices Recruitment Orientation Assessment Tools Advising
Career Services
Feedback

14. Retention Planning Recruitment Academic Advising Undecided Students
First Year Experience Courses
Sophomore & Junior Strategies
Noel-Levitz, 2008

15. EXPLORE ! DREAM! DISCOVER!
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Mark Twain

16. Questions????
Articles-Decided, Undecided, and In Transition: Implications for Academic Advisement, Career Counseling, & Student Retention-Joe Cuseo
Student Success, Retention, and Graduation: Definitions, Theories, Practices, Patterns, and Trends.
Noel -Levitz