Help Students Achieve Their Goals

At Starfish, our goals are straightforward, with far-reaching impact. We support your efforts to help students achieve their educational objectives, whether they include obtaining a bachelor's degree, earning a certificate, or learning a new job skill. With our software solutions, your institution can efficiently:

• Identify at-risk students in real time,
• Track your intervention efforts,
• Promote personalized support services to all students,
• Enable online appointment scheduling to connect students with your community, and
• Assess the overall effectiveness of your student success initiatives.

Plug Students into the Support Network

Today, institutions are looking for effective ways to help students overcome a range of familiar obstacles, including academic, social, financial, and cultural challenges. Advising, tutoring, mentoring, faculty connections, and counseling are proven to have positive effects on student retention and graduation. In fact, studies have shown that the broader the range of success services used by a student, the better off he/she is.

To Help, You Need to Know

Unfortunately, too often students slip through the cracks before the people who can help have had a chance to lend a hand. Many students are not even aware that they are at risk. Some may know they're having trouble but can't find the help they need.

Sometimes the solutions are evident, like solving accessibility issues for students with disabilities or scheduling appointments with a tutor. Sometimes the answers are harder to find, requiring time with a counselor or a change of academic direction.

Starfish Is Your Student Success Partner

Our solutions, Starfish EARLY ALERT™ and Starfish CONNECT™, enable your institution to create an online student success environment, facilitating programs such as academic advising, tutoring, mentoring, and others – with the aim of improving student persistence and retention. The solutions accelerate many of your student success initiatives by automating case management, early warning, intervention management, appointment scheduling, and student tracking.

Our systems are implemented quickly (typically in less than one month), are rapidly adopted by instructors (more than 50% of faculty use the system within the first few weeks), and reuse data you already have on campus (including your learning management and student information systems). As a result, Starfish provides valuable analytics to help you optimize your programs for continual improvement.