
Retain Your Graduate Students
What is the Graduate Engagement and Community-Building Program?
The Graduate Engagement and Community-Building Program is specifically designed to help institutions like yours retain more of their graduate students.

Why Use the Graduate Engagement and Community-Building Program?
Decrease the Likelihood of Attrition
Retaining students at the graduate school level presents a unique set of challenges because the pressures that individual students face are so distinctive. Graduate students experience academic failure and/or decide to drop out, stop out or transfer for a host of reasons, including:
- Family obligations
- Employment demands
- Increasing financial responsibilities and/or needs
- Loss of funding
- Lack of assistantship opportunities
- Poor relationship with advisors or supervisors
What Kind of Data and Assessments Can You Expect from the Graduate Engagement and Community-Building Program?
- Retention of participants vs. non-participants
- Retention of students who have a parent/family member participating in the parent version vs. no parent/family participation
- Retention of students who participated and who had a parent/family member participate in the parent version
- Demographic predictors of retention and program usage
- Your registration rate vs. historical registration rates and some commentary on how your program tracked compared to similar programs at institutions of a similar background
- Ongoing engagement patterns and continued usage compared to national averages and clients of similar demographics
- An overview of inquiries and responses via the Service Center and a comparison to similar client institutions based on program type, as well as commentary related to the responses and response time
- Key information or intelligence garnered from survey questions and responses and important areas for follow-up communication
- Overview of how your staff engaged with both the front-end program and the reporting/intelligence aspects
