An Open Letter to SUBR Students:

Now That We’ve Got You, We Want to Keep
You…Until You Graduate.
Go to Class and Reap the Benefits.
Keep Your Eyes On the Prize…Graduation.
These are just some of the slogans that SUBR has adopted to support its campus-wide retention efforts. This is a direct appeal to you as students to join us in this effort. Frankly, if you choose not to join us, this effort will not be successful, and we will continue to have too many students to enroll their freshman year and drop out or flunk out before they can complete the second year, not to mention the third or fourth year.
Our goal is simply this: We want you to finish what you started when you enrolled at SUBR; we want you to graduate! Here is what we ask of each SUBR student:
(1) Finish what you started when you enrolled at SUBR.
(2) Adopt a seriousness of purpose attitude relative to your education.
(3) Stop wasting your time and start managing your time wisely.
(4) While you are here at SUBR have getting an education as your top priority.
(5) Go to class and be on time!
(6) Do your homework!
(7) Demand that you get from your teachers that for which you have come: a stimulating and challenging educational experience.
(8) Ensure that your teachers know who you are.
(9) Ask for help if you need it; ask questions.
(10) Take advantage of tutorial services.
(11) Don’t wait until near the end of the semester to seek help.
(12) Communicate with your advisor; accept guidance from your advisor; don’t try to navigate your course of study (major) without an advisor.
(13) Do not apply for and accept loan money and then drop out and keep the money. This may solve an immediate problem for cash, but you set yourself up for debt problems in the near future that will negatively affect your credit and the quality of your life.
You will hear more about our University-Wide Retention Plan in your respective academic departments. Also, the SUBR Retention Blueprint will be placed online. Please join us in this effort. This is our challenge and if we want to be duly recognized, adequately funded and if you want to personally finish what you have started here at SUBR, then each one of you must pledge to commit and do whatever is necessary for you to stay the course and graduate!
Recruit, Retain, Graduate, these are our watch words. It’s an SUBR Family Affair!
Sincerely,
Margaret S. Ambrose
Interim Chancellor