Student Persistence as a Three-Tiered Approach
Session Type
Concurrent - Includes content presentation and Q & A with audience
Session Description
Loyola University Chicago’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies has restructured its degree program to increase student success. The outcome is dramatic: students maintain active enrollment at a 93% retention rate. This success is fostered through a three-tiered curriculum that clarifies students' personal and professional goals and builds their confidence in achieving them and a choice of delivery formats that allows the options of when, where, and how to study from one course or one term to another.
Session Focus
Post-traditional Students
Degree Completion
Session Audience
Deans & Senior Administrators
Primary Presenter
Jeanne Widen, Loyola University Chicago
Contact information
jwiden@luc.edu
312-915-6696
Brief Bio
Dr. Jeanne Widen is the Associate Dean and prior Faculty Director of Online Education at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She has many years of teaching and administrative experience in higher- and adult-education, in the United States and abroad, and in traditional and online programs.
Additional Presenter #1
Amy Jordan, Loyola University Chicago
Contact Information
Brief Bio
Dr. Amy Jordan serves as Director of Special Projects and is a member of the faculty at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Amy is lead faculty for Introduction to Degree Completion, The Capstone, and Leadership, Culture and Ethics, as well as the PLA Coordinator for SCPS.
Additional Presenter #2
Natasha Teetsov, Loyola University Chicago
Contact Information
nteetsov@luc.edu
312-915-6506
Brief Bio
Natasha Teetsov has many years of advising experience and is currently the Assistant Dean at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Loyola University Chicago. In this role she works closely with students in an advisory capacity.