Student Success & Retention Center (SSRC) falls under the supervision of the Director of Academic Advisement and is housed within the Academic Advisement Center

This department is responsible for:

•  Working with all Academic Intervention students
•  Responding to all Early Alert and Midterm Grade reports
•  Tracking all retention information and data on all students
• Contact all non-returning students
• Work with Business Services to get the purge list and communicate with the student’s weeks in advance of the purge. We purge at least 300 students a semester
• Work with Registration to get a complete withdrawal list of student and contact them as to why they withdrew from school and what are their future intentions.
• Work with Financial Aid to get the drop list and communicate with the student’s as to what we can do to help with their financial aid
• Contact all students informing them of course registration dates
• Contact all students that have not registered weeks following course registration.

Retention Advisor (Whitney Roberts) 

Academic Advisor/Retention
Dixie State College
Phone: 435.879.4690
Email: wroberts@dixie.edu

Are responsible for the following:

• Work with David Roos to fine tune Early Alert reports
• Track the retention of all freshmen cohorts, fall to spring, spring to fall, fall to fall.
• Track the Freshmen Student Inventory Survey
• Track the retention of all Low Income/Underrepresented students
• Oversee all Early Alert reports and communicate with students
• Oversee all Mid Term Grade reports and communicate with students

Academic Intervention Advisor (Landon Peterson) 

Academic Advisor/Academic Standards

Phone: 652-7690

Email: lpeterson@dixie.edu

Office: Whitehead SSC 2nd floor

Are responsible for the following:

•  Develop and provide intervention procedures for students that fall below a 2.0
•  Develop and provide intervention procedures for students that are placed on Academic Alert, Academic Warning, Academic Probation and Academic Suspension
• Provide monthly or weekly academic intervention seminars for students that are in academic trouble