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Forum 1: "Finding the Right Path to Graduate"

• April 20^th, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Project Description: One of the key objectives of this project is to provide the University with strategies to improve student graduation rates and to help students find the right path to graduate. This study will utilize both econometric modeling as well as machine learning approaches. The econometric approach will help us to better understand major switching and its consequences. It will also aid our machine learning approach in building a predictive model. The results from econometric and machine learning will help to build an early recommendation system on major switching for student success.
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Forum 2: "High-Impact Practices at É«ÖÐÉ«: How (and for whom) Do They Promote Student Success?"

• ​April 21^st, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Project Description: The overarching goal of the proposed study is to examine the role that three types of HIPs---academic internships, undergraduate research, and service learning —play in É«ÖÐÉ« student success, including the impact of HIPs on student perception of their É«ÖÐÉ« experience and participation data of who engages in HIPs at the Beach. This presentation will focus on internship data across all five HIP projects.
• Researchers:
  • Kelly Young - Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Beth Manke - Professor, Human Development

• Forum 3: "É«ÖÐÉ« Student Enrollment: A Dynamic Model with Projections"
  • ​April 22nd, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Project Description: This proposal is to develop a software program to help decision makers during the enrollment planning process by modeling student progress through their programs and how it will impact overall enrollment in departments and the university. 
• Researchers:
  • Lisa M. Star - Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management
  • Mehrdad Aliasgari - Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Computer Science
  • Jason Deutschman - Associate Director (Academic Advising), College of Engineering

• Forum 4: "Who drop out from É«ÖÐÉ« and what factors predict their attrition?"
  • ​April 25th, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Project Description: The goal of this research is to identify (1) who drop out from É«ÖÐÉ«, and (2) critical predictors of student attrition in the first two years at É«ÖÐÉ«.
• Researchers:
  • Hiromi Masunaga - Department Chair, Advanced Studies In Education & Counseling
  • Debra Satterfield - Professor, Design
  • Tianni Zhou - Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

• Forum 5: "Abating Attrition"
  • ​April 26th, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Project Description: This project seeks to determine the causes and antecedents to student attrition at The Beach. Our research questions for this project surround issues related to identification. In particular, we are interested in knowing (1) who the students are that decide to leave our campus. We are also interested in knowing (2) why they are leaving and what we can do about it from the standpoint of institutional intervention.
• Researchers:
  • Kerry Klima - Senior Director of Assessment and Educational Partnerships
  • Don Haviland  - Department Chair, Educational Leadership
  • Kaitlyn Stormes - Research Technician, College of Liberal Arts
  • Lizzet Rojas - Doctoral Candidate, UCLA

• Forum 6: "Identify and Support Diverse Pathways to Timely Graduation in CNSM"
  • ​April 27th, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Project Description: The goal of the proposed project is to utilize social-cognitive traits (attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions) in conjunction with demographics, admission and student success data to identify cohorts of É«ÖÐÉ« first-year biology students with similar needs in order to design support structures that ensure their major retention and timely graduation. 
• Researchers:
  • Raisa Hernández Pacheco - Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Dessie Underwood - Department Chair, Biological Sciences