Factors That Help Determining Student Retention

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Factors That Help Determining Student Retention
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Student Retention

• One of the most crucial factors deciding the fate
  and the profitability of any college these days
  is Student Retention, sometimes referred to as
  persistence, is of increasing importance to
  college administrators as they try to improve
  graduation rates and decrease loss of tuition
  revenue from students that either drop out or
  transfer to another school.

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• More than 50 of the students that graduate from
  a college began their studies in a different
  college in US. There are various indicators that
  point a student at risk
• Late registration
• Absence from class
• Failure to submit assignments on time
• These are a few indicators and there are more
  such indicators. And identifying key factors
  influencing attrition is a necessity.
• One cannot prevent anyone from moving ahead but
  can effectively try to convince them to think
  otherwise, but how to make this happen? Do you
  know your students well? Do you know their
  problems? Does all the college staff think alike
  regarding a student issue?
• STUDENTS NEED TO BE TREATED AS YOUR CUSTOMER for
  you to answer the few questions mentioned above.
  And to make this happen we need to rely on a
  man-made giant thats great when it works else.

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• TECHNOLOGY
• We live in an era where we could see the
  happenings on mars on the World Wide Web. So why
  not control a small issue like Retention.
• Technology controlled retention management is
  effective as it is a centralized process and all
  involved personals would be on the same page and
  the best part , People who used to state Thats
  not my department have to say Hey I am passing
  this issue to you , do you have anything that
  needs me to handle?
• There are two ways to implement this Man Made
  Giant to control retention. Some tech geeks could
  come over and create a solution for you from
  scratch else some geek would have created one
  such mechanism, you need to get that and plug it
  to your existing system and bingo things are
  under control.

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• I was curious to know what kind of a magic wand
  this new mechanism possess and tried out a
  handful of them.
•  All had the same flavor of the magic wand but
  one stood out. It was a tool called ProRetention
  which as the name suggested handled only
  retention management. And here the best part is,
  I have around 8 years of technology experience
  mostly in the CRM space. For all those ignorant
  god fearing people out there CRM means Customer
  Relationship Management, hey now dont get the
  feeling I am not, I am a God fearing technology
  understanding person. 
• This tool had all the essence of a fully fledged
  CRM, though they are not one actually. Whoever
  put the magic wand into the product make sure the
  wand was a few centimeters longer than the rest,
  making the magical power a bit more compared to
  the rest. It actually treated the students as
  customers and the problem which all the
  educational institutions in America were facing
  --- Retention, could possibly be managed using
  this Tool.

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• Retention is an area of interest for me, now
  dont ask me why? I have no clue it just stuck
  on to me when I read about it and doing further
  research on this topic. Will keep you all posted
  as along as technology works.
• Source Link http//www.proretention.com/index.htm
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