REAL OUTREACH: A Practical Guide to Retaining and Graduating College Students
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The best-selling instructional and educational text centered on college student retention and graduation.
Real Outreach is about helping high school students, college students, and their families to understand the
Dr. Ezella McPherson
Dr. Ezella McPherson is an African American woman first-generation college graduate and a college student retention expert. She has mentored, retained, and graduated hundreds of students by teaching them the art of resiliency. She has worked at multiple higher education institutions, where she has increased college student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. She taught a course on retaining at-risk collegians at Eastern Michigan University. She has published and presented on college student persistence, retention, and graduation of African American women, minority students, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her master's and doctorate degrees in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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REAL OUTREACH - Dr. Ezella McPherson
Real Outreach
A Practical Guide to Retaining
and Graduating College Students
By Ezella McPherson, Ph.D.
Written by: Ezella McPherson © 2021
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by means of electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise by any means without the written permission of the author.
Disclaimer: This book is the author’s account of actual events and she has put in the best efforts to accurately recount the actual stories. The names of the actual people have been changed to pseudonyms out of respect for their professional identities.
ISBN: 978-0-578-89383-9
Dr. McPherson Coaching LLC
Detroit, Michigan
www.drmcphersoncoaching.com
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021907756
1.College Students 2. Higher Education Administration 3. Academic Development Counseling 4. Self Help 5. Student Success 6. Motivational 7. College Graduation 8. Adult and Continuing Education
Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1. My Story and Retention Experience
Chapter 2. Academic Advising
Chapter 3. Academic Success Coach
Chapter 4. Mentoring
Chapter 5. Student Organizations
Chapter 6. Employment Opportunities
Chapter 7. Technology
Chapter 8. Creating a Paper Trail and Report Writing
Chapter 9. Real Outreach:
A Successful Student Retention and Graduation Model
Chapter 10. Conclusion
References
Biography
Book Synopsis
Dedication
This book is dedicated to everyone who desires to make a difference in the lives of college students to help facilitate their retention and graduation. You inspire all of us to be change agents in the lives of our students.
Preface
Although higher education institutions are making great strides toward enrolling students in college, retention and graduation of students remain a challenge. Student retention begins when students enter the university at orientation, continues each term as their studies continue, and ends when the students graduate. There are multiple reasons why some students stay in college while other students leave. However, few scholars or practitioners have written practical guides about successful retention and graduation programs or models.
As a student retention and graduation expert, I have designed a practical guide to help administrators, faculty members, staff, students, and families understand the ongoing needs of college students to help students not only persist in their studies but also graduate from college. The book begins with my story and retention experience. Following that, each chapter outlines a key component of a resource to support and facilitate student retention and graduation. These key support systems include academic advisors, academic success coaches, mentors, student organizations, employment opportunities, and technology. I also discuss the importance of creating a paper trail and report writing. The final chapter outlines a strategic approach that I use to support college students. I call this successful retention and graduation model Real Outreach.
Chapter 1
My Story and Retention Experience
I am an African American woman first-generation college graduate. I was afforded the opportunity to attend my first college choice, the University of Michigan (U of M) –Ann Arbor, for my undergraduate degree. I attended the U of M Residential College during my freshman year, which allowed me to take smaller classes with my peers in the East Quadrangle dorm. During my freshman year, my first assigned reading was a nearly 400-page book entitled A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. The book tells the story of an African American man, Cedric Jennings, from Washington, DC. He was admitted to and chose to attend the