UNCW increasing efforts to prevent ‘stop-outs’

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY), NC —  UNCW is stepping up its efforts to keeps students of all levels enrolled in college.

With help from the General Admission of the UNC system, the university was given $33,000 to help identify and prevent what they call “stop-out” students.

Otherwise known as students who stop registering after several semesters due to various reasons. Reasons such as an illness in the family. financial trouble, or grades.

No matter the issue, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Paul Townend hopes this money will help reduce the number of drop outs.

“We’re going to be able to resource some ideas that make sense to us, that basically take procedures that we already have in place for our first year students. And to think about the best ways to sustain them and to extend them to students at all levels at the university,” Townend said.

Townend says they plan to study a few approaches using advisers and teachers over the next several semesters to see what works best with the students.