WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- EAB announced
today the first Student Success Management System (SSMS), a new
category of enterprise technology that enables students, faculty,
administrators, advisors, and other student support professionals
to work together to guide students toward their graduation and
employment goals.
"After studying student success for 10 years, we have seen it
evolve from an isolated issue to an existential challenge that
affects every aspect of an institution, and every institution
across the selectivity spectrum," said Ed
Venit, senior director of strategic research at EAB.
"And it has become clear that everyone on campus needs to be able
to collaborate and innovate in order to achieve our aspirations for
students' experiences and outcomes. The SSMS is an enterprise
architecture that facilitates this coordinated and proactive
approach to student success management."
The SSMS enables all stakeholders on campus to manage
student success through one technology system.
- Students get personalized assistance through a mobile
application designed to help them manage their time and make better
decisions. The application helps students explore careers and
majors; connect with advisors and other campus resources; and
navigate complex college requirements with immediate support.
Students are also prompted to take actions that are necessary for
their individual success, such as applying for financial aid or
on-campus child care.
- Advisors have access to a customized predictive model to find
and support students at risk of dropping out. Then, with a
cross-campus referral system and real-time student engagement data,
they can connect students to tutoring centers, financial aid
offices, and other campus services—and track students' progress
after providing that support.
- Administrators can identify courses with high failure rates
that are preventing large numbers of students from graduating.
These courses present opportunities for instructional redesign to
improve learning outcomes. Administrators can also identify which
actions help students stay in school and graduate. For example,
they can see how students fare after seeking academic support, such
as visiting the writing center.
"In addition to augmenting and automating campus success
efforts, technology can accelerate change and transform the student
experience," said Scott Schirmeier,
executive vice president at EAB. "EAB's Student Success
Management System is designed to enable schools to quickly and
easily modernize the way they think about student success and break
down silos to make it a reality."
Across the country, 450 colleges and universities use EAB
analytics, workflow, and communications platforms to identify and
support at-risk students and make institutional changes to improve
overall outcomes. The SSMS brings these technologies together
with EAB best practice research in a single solution. By
doing so, the SSMS facilitates the campus-wide, data-driven
approach progressive institutions are taking to manage student
success and see significant results.
"With the help of analytics and applications that are now a part
of the SSMS, Georgia State has made a
lot of progress for our students in a short period of time," said
Tim Renick, vice president for
enrollment management and student success at Georgia State
University. "Over the last five years, our advisors had more
than 200,000 analytics-based interventions with students,
introduced smart-texting to deliver personalized alerts in
real-time to students, and integrated financial, career, and
academic counseling to provide more seamless support for our
students. As a result, we not only graduated thousands of
additional students, we shaved more than half a semester off the
average time to degree, saving students $15
million annually in tuition and fees."
About EAB
EAB is a best practices firm that
uses a combination of research, technology, and services to improve
the performance of more than 1,200 educational institutions.
A division of The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), EAB forges
and finds the best new ideas and proven practices from its network
of thousands of leaders, then customizes and hardwires them into
every level of member organizations, creating enduring value.
For more information, visit www.eab.com.
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