Retention Committee Charge

The Retention Committee's goal is to help all students thrive at St. Lawrence, engaging in meaningful ways in academic and co-curricular pursuits that lead to academic success, deep connections within the campus community, and personal growth.  We are committed to working with all faculty and staff to improve the overall student experience as well as to support individual students in finding what they are seeking from their St. Lawrence education.

To this end, we welcome suggestions from faculty, staff, and students about how to improve the student experience and information about particular students who would like help making their Laurentian experience better.

The Retention Committee includes both faculty and staff from the offices of Advising, Residence Life, Health and Counseling, Registrar, Diversity and Inclusion, Student Financial Services, Admissions, and Institutional Research. 

The committee provides the single point of contact for information about students at risk of departing; gathers and assesses data on retention trends in the aggregate and for particular student groups; maintains, updates, and oversees retention policies and practices; coordinates retention efforts by faculty, staff, and offices university-wide; and maintains metrics for retention goals, periodically assessing and reporting to Senior Staff on whether these goals have been met and what steps should be taken in the future.