Innovation in Retention Critical Thinking and Academic Success as Essential Components in the Recruitment Process Developed by Ndala M. Booker, Ed.D. Director, Center for Academic Achievement Adventist University of Health Sciences, Orlando, Florida National Small College Enrollment Conference July 16-18, 2018 Louisville, Kentucky
About Me…
Who am I? I?
Children (Who aren’t actually children)
One Little Son (W (Who is is really not so lit little anymore )
Expansions…
Adéluna… (Moon Princess)
Cuteness deserves its own slide…
Generation Z…?
Critically Thinking through…. Academic Success (Retention) and Recruitment
National Retention Rates… • The National Student Clearinghouse reported that the national average of the 6-year graduation rate of students who started in Fall of 2006 was… • 60.5% at public four year colleges • 62.5% at private non-profit colleges ADU…67.67%
Adventist University of f Health Sciences
Adventist University of f Health Sciences
ADU Mission… Developing skilled professionals who live the healing values of Christ.
What are some of f the CHALLENGES? Students under 25 Adolescent minds are not adults yet Society says… Parents say… Training for the Belief vs. Reality profession
What do our Responsibility •Future• students •Technology• •Tasks• need? Resilience Persistence
Inability to Parents and cope with student stress responsibility What are some of the Unreasonable Proficiency expectations CHALLENGES? Profile Waiver Unable to accept failure
Critical Thinking… • How are we using critical thinking to assist in addressing issues in student success/retention? • We have added critical thinking components to the orientation process. • We are introducing students to a formal critical thinking method in their first year experience • POH • Week 3
But What About Recruiting? Many universities face challenges regarding student support departments being “siloed” from one another. In light of the ever growing challenges and needs related to retention and attrition, what if we give consideration to the benefits of two vital departments working together to strategically form a cross- functional bond that would be of great benefit to incoming students.
How are we presenting the information? Here is a sample of the Critical Thinking/Academic Success workshop…
POINT OF VIEW (Frame of Reference, Perspective) Where are you coming from? Responsibilities in… • Elementary School • Middle School • High School • No Critical Thinking • Decisions made emotionally and fearfully
Barriers in Thinking We take our “thinking” for granted. “My thinking is fine, thank you very much.” • Egocentricity • Sociocentricity • Self-delusion • Narrow-mindedness
Keys to Success: 5 Ways to im immediately change your space • Responsibility • Time Management • Controlling Emotional Hotspots • Intellectual Persistence • Critical Thinking
• PERSONAL SPACE • Home • Extended Family • Friends • Vehicle/Transportati • ACADEMIC SPACE on • Study Time • Assignments • Communication • Instructors Responsibility • Classmates • Family/Friends • Employers
Controlling Emotional Hotspots Issues that cause you to react in a very strong and angry way
Crit itical Thinking • THINGKING within my own space • ASKING myself how should this information help me to live better • How can I USE this information to help me live better • How does this information RELATE TO REAL LIFE
Critical Thinking • Critical Thinking: Is at the heart of everything • As humans, we live in our minds. • In some parts of our lives, we automatically think better. • THINKING NEEDS INTERVENTION
Critical Thinking… Can we guarantee that we won’t make any more big mistakes? Take a couple of minutes to think of the 3 biggest mistakes you’ve made. What could you have done differently. What could you have changed? What was the main reason that the mistake was made?
The Critical Thinking Wheel Developed by Dr. Richard Paul, founder of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking.
Critical Thinking… We get stuck in habits of thought, which is why we get stuck in habits. It is a natural process of the human mind. The wheel helps us to process through our thoughts and our habits so that we can think better.
Elements of Thought… • Purpose: What is your goal? What is your objective? • Questions: What problem? What issue? What question? • Information: What do I need? Do I have it? • Interpretation: What are some solutions? • Concepts : What is the key idea? What is the author using to organize the data/info? • Implications : What could/will the consequences be?
What assumptions am I making about … • Life • College • Jobs • The way a person dresses • Classes • People • Teachers • Students • Etc … Assumptions: What am I I taking for granted?
• Point of View • We have a Limited Point of view • Perception • Everyone has their own perception Elements of f Thought
Questioning our Egocentrism • One of the primary barriers to the development of insightful thinking is the natural human tendency toward EGOCENTRIC thought. • Humans naturally see the world in self- serving terms . • In other words, we do not naturally consider the rights and needs of others, nor do we naturally appreciate the point of view of others or the limitations in our own point of view.
Questioning our Egocentrism • One of the great barriers to detecting egocentric thought comes from the self- deceptive nature of the human mind. • We live with the unrealistic but confident sense that we have fundamentally figured out the way things actually are , and that we have done this objectively. • We need to routinely question our motivations and study our own possible selfishness and narrowmindedness.
Take Aways… • A student’s positive impression of your college can begin in high school. The qualit lity of your lif life is is • Fostering critical thinking and academic prim imaril ily determin ined by y success prior to college equips students with tools they NEED for their academic the qualit lity of your journey. thin inkin ing. • Offer academic success and critical thinking components for FREE. • Remember that telling is NOT learning Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2013). 30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical • Just get out of bed and press play. (Tony Thinking . Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Person Education. Horton, PX90)
Questions… Ndala M. Booker, Ed.D. Director, Center for Academic Achievement Adventist University of Health Sciences Orlando, Florida Ndala.Booker@adu.edu 407-303-7747 Ext. 110-1286 Changing Spaces @NdalaLive “Change your space. If we each work on our own space… we can change the world.”
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