The college formed a group of faculty members, current and former students, area employers, and community leaders to study student retention and completion rates and identify strategies for increasing graduation rates for students. this group is an example of a(n)

This group is an example of a TASK GROUP

Explanation:

A task group is a group that is created in order to accomplish specific work goals. Task group involves committees, task forces , study circles and learning groups ,planning and discussion groups and any other groups whose intentions are tasked with accomplishing a particular goal which is outside of the members. This means their are not working to achieve their own particular goal but a goal is to help others mostly.

The task group in our example has a goal to help students graduate and as a result they form diffrent structures that can help towards assisting students to achieve this goal.