Making Your Mark - the right start to college

 
 

  1. 1.A strengths-based retention vision

  2. based on faculty involvement, first impressions, student satisfaction

  3. 2.College-wide commitment

  4. 3.Faculty training and support

  5. 4.Student success resources/support (incl. Making Your Mark)

  6. 5.Detailed plan for 1st day of college

  7. 6.Motivated students/1st day feedback

  8. 7.Great results

  9. increased student motivation, satisfaction, and retention

 

the 7 essential elements of student motivation and retention

The right start to college retention program checklist:

Making Your Mark: The Right Start to College

P.O. Box 45

Port Perry, ON
L9L 1A2

905.985.9990
1.877.492.6845
info@makingyourmark.com

making your mark, 8th edition

over one million copies sold!

Our best-selling college success book contains student motivation content, interactive retention exercises, and a comprehensive collection of academic and career success skills. Making Your Mark is the foundation of The Right Start to College student motivation and retention program.

Students use the ideas outlined in Making Your Mark to take their current success skills to a new level by using our high-performance change model. The exercises in Making Your Mark encourage students to reflect upon what motivates them and help them see how they can preserve that motivation throughout their college years. Students also examine their past work habits and determine how they can improve their self-management skills, and will understand how they can transfer college success skills to a career setting.

The interactive exercises target

  1. •developing and strengthening student motivation

  2. •high-performance habits and change

  3. •relationship building

  4. •academic skill building

A message to students from Making Your Mark:

"The skills outlined in Making Your Mark will help you graduate from college. But more important, these skills will see you through your entire career. It’s kind of like a 2-for-1 deal. The college success skills you develop are the same employment skills you’ll need for your career: good work habits, efficient time management, and an organized system for getting your work done at a high standard. If you approach your college years as professional development for your career, you’ll be well prepared for the workplace, and you’ll come as close as it gets to guaranteeing yourself a good job upon graduation.