CENTRALIZED INTRUSIVE ADVISING AND UNDERGRADUATE RETENTION
This study discusses the impact of the presence of “a centralized student advising service which practices intrusive advising” on the “persistence of entering students” and suggests that this strategy could be useful to other institutions.
Contributor Notes
*DEWAYNE BACKHUS has been a faculty member at Emporia State University in the Department of Earth Science for 20 years. More recently, he served as a faculty advisor in the Emporia State University Student Advising Center, and has held administrative positions including director of Peterson Planetarium, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and this past year served as the director of the Student Advising Center. He will be on sabbatical leave during the 1988–89 academic year; following that he will assume the chair of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at ESU.
