Becker College Partners With Starfish Retention Solutions to Improve Student Retention
Becker College recently announced that it has adopted the Starfish® system to advance the institution's efforts to improve graduation and persistence rates.
Becker College serves approximately 1,800 students at its campuses in Worcester and Leicester, Mass. As a benefit of its size, the institution prides itself on its ability to provide close personal attention to the individual student. With the assistance of a Title III grant, the institution set out to improve its student retention rate by introducing a more streamlined academic performance early alert process as well as other student support services such as supplemental instruction and additional technology in the classrooms. The grant also makes it possible for Becker to expand the institution's existing first-year experience (FYE) program.
After reviewing solutions from five companies, the committee of faculty, administrators, and staff selected Starfish to support their goals. The system was chosen because of its ease of use and its seamless integration with the institution's existing ANGEL learning management system. "The integration with our ANGEL system makes life so much easier for faculty," said Betsy Fuller, Ed.D., vice president of academic affairs at Becker College. "They need only one click to get into the Starfish system, and with just a couple of clicks they can report their concern about a student. The system also makes it easy for us to close the loop with faculty members to let them know that the concern has been addressed."
>>read more about Becker College and Starfish
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Webinar Invitation | Hear from Becker College
Join the whole team from Becker College, including Dr. Betsy Fuller, vice president of academic affairs, as they discuss their initiatives, strategies, goals, and lessons learned. To register, click on a link below.
>>May 23 at 2 pm ET
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Starfish Featured on The Pulse, sponsored by Inside Higher Ed
We were honored to be a recent guest on the Podcast, The Pulse. The program offers insights into the mission we are on here at Starfish, the solutions that we offer, and the amazing stories that are being developed by our client community.
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Starfish is Hiring! Join Our Team
We are always looking for motivated, creative, and hard-working individuals to join our team. We are currently accepting resumes for a number of positions within our Client Services, Product Development, Product Management, Operations, and Sales teams. Let us know if you are interested or if you know someone that we should be talking to! >>see our open positions
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What's All the Buzz About Anyway?
If Starfish is new to you, or if it has been a while since you've taken a look at us, we invite you to spend a few minutes at one of the upcoming Webinars to see the latest and greatest that Starfish has to offer! To register, click on a link below.
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Webinar Invitation | Calling Community College Leaders
Starfish is hosting a Webinar session exclusively for Community Colleges, which will explore how technology can support your student success efforts. Join us!
>>May 9 at 2 pm ET
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