Abstract:
The communication presents in detail a strategic plan of the management from the Agriculture Faculty to support the 1st
year students who risk dropping out of university and who belong mainly to the disadvantaged groups. The educational
approach was settled after the initial analysis of the causes that lead to the university dropout phenomenon. Some
students come from families with low income; others live only with one parent or their parents work abroad (19.8%);
some of them live in the countryside (45.3%); others come from disadvantaged social groups or they risk dropping out
of university (86.6% in the academic year 2016/2017). In the academic year 2015-2016, 77 first year students were
expelled, out of a total of 376, which represents 20.5 %. In the academic year 2016-2017, 321 first year students were
enrolled, out of which 278 students are in a risky situation; 174 students belong to disadvantaged social and economic
groups; the first year students of the graduation cycle do not have the necessary learning skills. In order to diminish the
university dropout, the following efforts will be made: to find out the students’ individual particular features according
to their age; to focus on the students about the teaching-learning-evaluating approaches; to initiate and to carry out
social and emotional development programs; to counsel the students individually so that they overcome adapting issues
which occur in the first year of the bachelor’s cycle; to acquire efficient learning techniques that could open for them
new horizons to the lifelong education; partnerships among families, university, community and economic agents.
