The mandate and responsibilities include:

• Support the development of targets to improve student retention by gathering industry best practice insights and assembling student profiles which are representative of the diversity of Memorial’s student population.
• Recommend to PEC, tactics and strategies to meet these identified retention targets.
• Develop action plans and set timelines to achieve these retention targets.
• Establish metrics and processes to track progress towards retention targets.
• Address policy and practices that can support the continuous enhancement of retention activities at Memorial.
• Assess retention resources and make recommendations to PEC on how these might be strategically employed.
• Employing a lens of equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism and indigenization, analyze established practices and polices related to retention to determine where inadequacies or gaps might exist and offer concrete, actionable solutions to address them.

Membership

Operations

• The mandate of the Working Group shall be reviewed by PEC on an annual basis.
• Changes to the mandate or membership requires approval of PEC
• Meetings will be held at a minimum once per month for 90 minutes or at the call of the Co-Chairs (when required).
• The Working Group can establish other specific sub-groups as required.
• Agenda and supporting documentation provided electronically at least one week in advance of meeting.
• Quorum will consist of 50% + 1 of members, with all members having voting rights.
• Decision making will be based on consensus or agreement of most members.
• The Office of the Registrar will provide a resource who is responsible for taking meeting minutes.
• The Office of the Registrar will provide a resources who is responsible for overseeing information management and record-keeping for the Working Group.