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Item Using Strengths to Mentor Students(2013-11-04) Hinz, Katy; Bryant, Kelly; Soria, Krista M.Since fall 2011, the University of Minnesota Twin-Cities has offered over 10,000 incoming first-year students the Clifton StrengthsFinder inventory within a larger framework of the StrengthsQuest higher education program. This presentation highlights a collaborative campus-wide approach to building students’ strengths, with a focus on how to use strengths through mentorship in a variety of student affairs divisions and how this can greatly benefit students. This presentation will also assist practitioners seeking to implement one-to-one strengths-based activities into their own professional practice, their unit, and/or at their institution.Item Identifying Students at Risk: Utilizing Survival Analysis to Study Student Athlete Attrition(2006-10) Radcliffe, Peter M.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Kellogg, John P.Item Modeling the Incidence and Timing of Student Attrition: A Survival Analysis Approach to Retention Analysis(2006-11) Radcliffe, Peter M.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Kellogg, John P.Item Modeling the Incidence and Timing of Student Attrition: A Survival Analysis Approach to Retention Analysis(2007-06) Radcliffe, Peter M.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Kellogg, John P.Item Modeling Student Academic Success: Does Usage of Campus Recreation Facilities Make a Difference?(2007-09) Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Brown, Anthony K.; Lee, Giljae; Kellogg, John P.; Radcliffe, Peter M.Item Identifying Factors Related to Student Success: Utilizing Multinomial Logit Regression to Study Graduation in Higher Education(2007-10) Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Radcliffe, Peter M.; Jones-White, Daniel R.; Kellogg, John P.; Lee, GiljaeItem Correlations Between Average Faculty Salaries and Institutional Rankings for Top-ranked Institutions(2007-10) Goldfine, Leonard S.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Jones-White, Daniel R.Item Redefining Student Success: Assessing Different Multinomial Regression Techniques for the Study of Student Retention and Graduation Across Institutions of Higher Education(2008-05) Jones-White, Daniel R.; Radcliffe, Peter M.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Kellogg, John P.Item Hitting a Moving Target: Navigating the Landscape of Ever-Changing College Rankings(2008-05) Goldfine, Leonard S.; Jones-White, Daniel R.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Lee, GiljaeItem Shifting Student Demographics and Their Impact on a Midwestern Higher Education Institution's Transformation: Preparing for Change(2009-06) Frazier, Christina; Howard, Rich; Banks, Barbara; Kellogg, John P.Item Redefining Student Success: Assessing Different Multinomial Regression Techniques for the Study of Student Retention and Graduation Across Institutions of Higher Education(2009-06) Jones-White, Daniel R.; Radcliffe, Peter M.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Kellogg, John P.2008 AIR Best Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Association of Institutional Research Forum.Item Counting Out Time: Utilizing Zero Modified Count Regression to Model Time-to-Degree Attainment(2009-06) Jones-White, Daniel R.; Radcliffe, Peter M.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.; Kellogg, John P.Item Reporting with the New Racial and Ethnic Data(2009-10-01) Lorenz, LindaItem Priced Out? Does Financial Aid Affect Student Success?(2009-10) Jones-White, Daniel R.; Radcliffe, Peter M.; Lorenz, LindaItem Developing a Focused Structured Student Outcomes Assessment Program Experience at a Large Public University(2009-10) Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.Item What is it that satisfies faculty?: Rank as a consideration in factors related to job satisfaction.(2009-10) Johnson, Gina M.Item Priced Out? Does Financial Aid Affect Student Success?(2010-06) Jones-White, Daniel R.; Radcliffe, Peter M.; Lorenz, LindaItem The Politics of Equity Research(2010-10) Goldfine, Leonard S.; Radcliffe, Peter M.The neutrality of an IR office can be put to the test when tasked with conducting an equity study. Even the best intentioned and well reasoned study is subject to political considerations that have little to do with the pursuit of truth. From considerations of what variables to include in a regression model to interpretation of results, what it said, how it is said, and from whom a message comes are all as important as any actual statistical results. This session presents a road map to some of the pitfalls an IR office can face when asked to perform an equity study. Resources from the literature as well as anecdotal experience are used to illustrate the often exasperating decisions and negotiations institutional researchers will have to face when moving beyond the realm of pure research and into studies that could have a large and immediate impact on the University and its employees and students lives.Item Serving to Learn: Does Community Based Learning Participation Contribute to More Desirable Student Outcomes?(2010-10) Jones-White, Daniel R.; Soria, Krista M.; Huesman, Ronald L. Jr.Given the increasing emphasis on public engagement on many college campuses, it is important to assess the extent to which engagement opportunities provide meaningful and valuable experiences for college students. While there is growing evidence to support the notion that public engagement opportunities (e.g. service-learning, volunteerism) contributes to student academic success, Eyler, Giles, and Gray (1999) caution that there is no consensus on the impact of engagement experiences and academic achievement indicators, such as grade point average. Given the apparent lack of agreement in the research, this study attempts to identify if there is a relationship between participation in community based learning activities and first-year achievement in college. To assess if there is an independent relationship between participating in different communitybased activities and first-year student grade point average, this study utilizes a sample of first-time, full-time freshmen students enrolled at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Fall 2009 who participated in a unique survey of student engagement (the SERU survey) administered during Spring 2010.