1. January 13-15, 2015 | Costa Mesa, CA

2. Welcome to the Symposium!

3. Overview Where Do I Find... ? Lay of the Land Who is Working With Us? The Gardner Institute Staff Why Are We Doing This? The Goal and Objectives How Will We Do This Review of Agenda & Materials What Else Will We Do? The Principles Questions?

4. Where Do I Find... ? The Lay of the Land

5. Who Is Working With Us? The Gardner Institute Staff

6. Why Are We Doing This? The Goal

7. Why Are We Doing This? To Gather Information & Establish a Foundation for Creating an Evidence-Based Retention Plan The Goal

8. Why Are We Doing This? Symposium on Student Retention: Building Foundations for a Highly Effective, Evidence-Based Retention Plan

9. Why Are We Doing This?

10. Symposium on Student Retention: Building Foundations for a Highly Effective, Evidence-Based Retention Plan Why Are We Doing This?

11. Objective #1 Learn about the various problems that lead to low retention and/or graduation rates as demonstrated by: Participation in presentations and concurrent sessions Participation in discussions Your Team Other Teams Gardner Institute Staff Why Are We Doing This?

12. Objective #2 Inform institutional leaders about promising practices associated with student success as demonstrated by: Participation in and discussion about the promising practices and student success sessions

13. Why Are We Doing This? Objective #3 Enable institutional teams to begin building an evidence- based plan to address retention and graduation challenges on their home campuses as demonstrated by: Work with Analyze & Plan Templates Participation in Analytics & Student Success as well as Assessing Retention Plan sessions

14. Why Are We Doing This? Objective #4 Consult with a Gardner Institute staff member about your institution’s retention needs as demonstrated by: Individual and/or group discussions with Gardner institute staff members during the Symposium Post Symposium follow up discussion

15. Why Are We Doing This? Objective #5 Contribute to the formulation of Principles of Good Practice for Improving Retention analogous to the Seven Principles of Good Practice for Student Success Partnerships as demonstrated by: During & Post-Symposium Contributions to the Creation of the Principles

16. How Will We Do This? Agenda Review

17. How Will We Do This? Materials Review

18. What Else Will We Do? Principles of Good Practice for Improving Retention

19. Additional Questions & Discussion