South Carolina Technical College System Partners with Greenwood Hall to Enhance Accessibility to Student Services
April 26 2017 - 6:00AM
Greenwood Hall, Inc. (OTCQB:ELRN), an education technology company
that partners with colleges and universities to improve student
engagement and outcomes, today announced the Company has been
selected by the SC Technical College System (SCTCS) to provide
comprehensive student lifecycle solutions to the 16-campus system
on a statewide basis. The solutions will specifically enhance
student access to critical student support services and assistance.
Research has found that a majority of students who drop out of
college on a nationwide basis do so because they do not have access
to adequate non-academic support services. By investing in
solutions that help students remove non-academic obstacles,
post-secondary institutions can improve graduation rates and
student outcomes.
Working with individual SCTCS colleges, Greenwood Hall will
offer best of breed support services in financial aid, enrollment
support, retention, and technical help desk solutions to assist
students with gaining better access to student services vital to
student success while enhancing the overall student experience. The
SCTCS-Greenwood Hall partnership will specifically support the
statewide system’s goals of making quality higher education
opportunities available to all South Carolinians.
Greenwood Hall was selected, in part, due its proven
track-record in enhancing student experience and service at six
individual colleges in the system: Horry-Georgetown,
Florence-Darlington, Greenville, Tri-County, Technical College of
the Lowcountry, and Spartanburg Community College. Harold Hawley,
vice president and chief financial officer for Horry-Georgetown
Technical College, a Greenwood Hall education partner since 2012,
said, "We needed a fundamentally different strategy for handling
incoming calls, leveraging resources, and improving our service to
students. The alliance with Greenwood Hall accomplished
these goals and has forever re-shaped the way we do
business. As a result of the partnership, our students
are better served and that is what matters most."
Working with the individual SCTCS colleges, Greenwood Hall will
offer schools best of breed support services in financial aid,
enrollment support, retention, and technical help desk solutions to
assist students with gaining better access to college services and
helping improve the overall student experience.
“Student success and retention are important measures for the SC
Technical College System,” said Dr. Hope Rivers, executive vice
president of academic and student services for the System.
“We look forward to partnering with Greenwood Hall to enhance the
student experience across our 16 colleges.”
“A great student experience is essential to student
success and student retention,” said Bill Bradfield, executive vice
president of strategic partnerships at Greenwood Hall. “Greenwood
Hall has had partnerships with six of the sixteen SCTCS system
schools dating to 2012. The great teams at each of the campuses
have made the connection between great service and increased
student success. With this expanded partnership, all the schools in
the system can take advantage of our services so we can help them
help their students through the entire student lifecycle.”
About the SC Technical College System Comprised
of 16 colleges located strategically across the state and two
internationally-renowned statewide programs
– readySC™ and Apprenticeship Carolina™ – the SC
Technical College System is dedicated to furthering economic and
workforce development in South Carolina.
As the state’s largest higher education system, the SC Technical
College System serves more than a quarter million South Carolinians
each year and educates more of our state’s undergraduates than all
the other public higher education institutions combined.
Dedicated to making a quality higher education both accessible and
affordable, the System plays a key role in educating and training
South Carolina’s workforce for the in-demand, high-skilled jobs of
today and tomorrow. In addition, the System’s
internationally-recognized statewide programs – readySC and
Apprenticeship Carolina – work to attract new companies to the
state as well as provide comprehensive workforce solutions to
ensure they stay and grow here.
By making a quality higher education accessible, affordable and
relevant to the people of South Carolina, the SC Technical College
System is preparing our state’s workforce for the jobs of today and
the careers of tomorrow.
About Greenwood HallGreenwood Hall is an
education technology company that helps colleges and universities
manage the student journey. Every Greenwood Hall solution is
designed to increase revenue and improve student engagement as well
as learning outcomes. Since 2006, Greenwood Hall has developed
customized turnkey solutions that touch the entire student
lifecycle – combining strategy, people, proven processes and robust
technology to help schools effectively and efficiently improve
student experience and student outcomes, as well as increase
revenues and expand into new marketing channels, such as online
learning. Greenwood Hall has served more than 60 education clients
and over 75 degree programs.
Forward-Looking StatementsCertain statements
contained in this press release, including, but not limited to,
predictions and projections that may be considered forward-looking
statements under securities law, involve a number of risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially,
including, but not limited to, lack of consumer acceptance and
demand for Greenwood Hall ("the Company," "our," "we") products and
solution offerings developed with strategic partners, insufficient
working capital to expand the Company's technology and engage in
product marketing, intense competition from larger and more
well-established companies, and other economic, competitive and
technological factors involving the Company's operations, markets,
services, products and prices, and other factors, as described in
"Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), as well as in our other
filings with the SEC. In addition, actual results may differ as a
result of additional risks and uncertainties of which we are
currently unaware or which we do not currently view as material to
our business. For these reasons, investors are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. The
forward-looking statements we make speak only as of the date on
which they are made. Greenwood Hall expressly disclaims any intent
or obligation to update any forward-looking statements after the
date hereof to conform such statements to actual results or to
changes in our opinions or expectations, except as required by
applicable law. If we do update or correct any forward-looking
statements, investors should not conclude that we will make
additional updates or corrections.
Media and Investor Relations:
Bill Bradfield
Greenwood Hall
330-461-3981
bbradfield@greenwoodhall.com
Kelly Steinhilper
VP-Communications
SC Technical College System
O: 803-896-5408
steinhilper@sctechsystem.edu