When it comes to graduation rates, some colleges are finding that small campaigns can lead to big improvements.
Only 59 percent of the students who enrolled at a four-year institution in 2007 graduated with a degree by 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s national six-year graduation rate. There are many reasons why the remaining 41 percent didn’t. Maybe they changed majors, setting them back several semesters, transferred to a different college but found some of their courses didn’t follow, or ran into financial or personal issues that prevented them from finishing their studies.
A sliver of that population, however, is being held back by much less insurmountable problems, such as a small financial hold or a single missing course. A handful of colleges making an effort to solve one particular problem — getting students who are eligible to but for some reason don’t apply for graduation — are seeing a measurable jump in their graduation rates.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/09/using-data-driven-advising-colleges-find-more-students-eligible-graduate
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