Medaille College News

Dr. Michael Lillis, associate professor and chair of the Business Department, has had his paper, “Faculty Emotional Intelligence and Student-Faculty Interactions: Implications for Student Retention,” accepted for publication in the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. This paper was the result of a recent mentoring initiative undertaken by Medaille’s Business Department in fall 2008.

Comments from the Editorial Board of the Journal include: ”Sometimes students don’t acquire faculty mentors until they declare a major. . . [S]tudents who make some kind of connection with the University that first year, do indeed tend to stay enrolled and graduate. And, yes we should focus on the faculty side of the equation. Higher Ed would be well-served by the “creation” of a multi-faceted mentoring model, as well as an integrated model of student persistence… “

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