Partners Share Their Stories
Retention and persistence can have profound ripple effects in students’ lives and in the lives of their families and communities. Our partners are truly effecting positive change and working to solve college completion crises. Learn more about the strategies, innovations, and achievements that our partners have seen through their dedicated focus on a better approach to student persistence.
Connecting Students to the Right Resources
Olivet College (MI)
Dr. KayDee Perry
Associate Provost for Student Development
"This is the one opportunity where students are telling us what they need, what they want, and how they're feeling ..."
A Proactive Approach to Student Engagement
Genesee Community College
Dr. Shelitha Williams
Vice President, Student & Enrollment Services
"At times in higher education we are reactive. The EdSights approach meets students where they are and are proactively responsive to their needs."
Boosting Retention by 14%
Franklin Pierce University (NH)
"The data that EdSights has allowed us to gather about our students and their experience has caused us to ask different questions and think differently about how we approach supporting them."
Andrew Pollom
Dean of Student Affairs
Engagement Beyond a Bot
NHTI - Concord's
Community College
"My favorite thing about working with EdSights is the innovation of the technology. It's fantastically clever to think you can contact your students using your mascot; which is such a wonderful brand that the college has."
Amber Gaverlik
Marketing Officer
Meet Students Where They Are
Aquinas College (MI)
"EdSights really makes it so the students will interact with a bot in a way that they sometimes will not with humans ... What they share with the bot is a bit different (than human interactions)."
Brian Matzke
Associate Vice President of Student Success
Driving Measurable Results
Jacksonville University (FL)
"EdSights helps us really draw attention to (at-risk) students that historically we may not know about until it's way past the point of no return."
Dr. Will Miller
Executive Director of Analytics, Effectiveness and Strategic Planning
Faster Results, Earlier Action
Missouri Western State University (MO)
Derek Evans
Interim Director, Student Success
and Advising Center
"We've worked with EdSights a number of years. We trust their model. It's evidence based. They know what they are doing!"
Strategic Use of Team Time
Western Illinois University (IL)
Justin Schuch
Executive Director of Retention Initiatives
"We have really leveraged the interventions and risk levels (from EdSights) to be the driving force behind our entire retention strategy."
Engagement Beyond Email
West Virginia University - Parkersburg (WV)
Torie Jackson
President
"To learn what matters to your students can really transform an institution."