"Starfish believes in a community-based development philosophy. Our success wholly depends on meeting the needs of the market. What better way to do this than to work in partnership with the community to understand their needs and create innovative solutions together."
—David Yaskin
CEO and Founder
Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc.
Future Products
A core belief of the team at Starfish Retention Solutions is to collaborate with stakeholders to arrive at better results. We look forward to higher education and K-12 community members contacting us to collaborate on our upcoming software services:
- Starfish TUTORING™, available late 2008
- Starfish MENTORING™, available 2009
- Starfish ADVISING™, available 2009
- and other exciting student success solutions to be identified ...
For a better understanding of our initial thoughts behind these software services, read below or contact us:
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Manages tutoring on campus via tutor recruitment; tutor certification; tutoring scheduling;
supply-demand matching; meeting room management; and tutor rating and evaluation. Determine if tutoring
impacts grades that term and long-term. Determine if tutoring improves retention and graduation rates.
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Manages mentoring programs via mentor recruitment;
mentor scheduling; mentor profiles; and catalogs mentors by industry, company, profession, and region. Assesses effectiveness of mentoring programs.
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Deepens the impact of academic advising via degree audit; workflows for at-risk students;
and social networking around majors. Conducts surveys of participants. Determines correlations with
student outcomes. Benchmarks outcomes against peer and aspirant institutions.
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