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<div align="center"><font size=5>Graduate School of Education<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
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Invites you to attend a symposium presented by:<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=6><i>Dr. Leticia
Oseguera<br>
</i></font>Assistant Professor in the Department of Education with a
joint appointment<br>
in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine.<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>speaking on:<br>
“The Influence of Institutional Retention Climates on<br>
Student Persistence to Degree Completion: A Multilevel<br>
Approach”<br><br>
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Using multi-institutional data from the Cooperative Institutional
Research Program’s (CIRP) annual survey of entering freshmen, the Higher
Education Research Institute’s Faculty Surveys, campus registrars’
offices, and IPEDS data, I evaluate the extent to which peer<br>
institutional retention climates and faculty normative environments
influence individual six year retention rates. I use hierarchical
generalized linear models (HGLM) to examine the extent to which
institutional context (as measured by peer retention climate and
faculty<br>
normative climate), net of students’ ability, expectations, and family
socioeconomic status, influence students’ persistence behavior. I found
that peer climates as defined by a student body’s aggregated report of
stop out or transfer intentions, did independently determine<br>
whether a student would persist or not as did a campuses’ overall
retention rate. While past research has overlooked peer and faculty
normative climates, the results from this work call for the attention of
peer institutional retention climates.<br><br>
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Monday, November 24, 2008<br>
4:00– 5:30 p.m. <br>
1215 Sproul Hall<br><br>
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<font face="Garamond" size=4 color="#000080"><b>Leslie Bushong<br>
</b></font><font color="#000080">Director, California
Teach-Science/Mathematics Initiative (CaTEACH-SMI) <br>
1104 Pierce Hall<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
voice: (951) 827-4970<br>
fax: (951) 827-4971<br>
website:
<a href="http://smi.ucr.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://smi.ucr.edu<br><br>
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