1. Student Engagement & Retention Workshop @ Cape Fear Community College Percell W. Hobbs Interim Coordinator of Academic Advisors Central Piedmont Community College June 17, 2008

3. Learn the college Getting involve with student activities Encourage and support each other Cheerleaders

4. Advocators Promote learning Coaches Cheerleaders

5. Recognize self Cultivate Learning Coaches Cheerleaders

6. Produce critical thinkers Managers of their educational ambitions Coaches Cheerleaders

7. Compose information with simplicity so that students can grasp it easier. Relieve frustrated students who place into developmental courses and/or attending a community college.

8. Utilize vocabulary that relates to students cultural capital in order to assist them in maneuvering through the system (30). Demonstrate terminology: Catalog Schedule Syllabus Register

9. Carrie M Bourdon & Rozana Carducci. What works in the Community Colleges: A Synthesis of the Literature on Best Practices. University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education, Higher Education and Organizational Change Division (December 2002).