We frequently hear from colleges and universities who make significant investments in student retention analytics solutions that don’t create the value that was promised for the actual students (i.e.
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It has become common practice in the enrollment management space to use predictive models to target outreach and recruit the right students.

Financial aid and enrollment offices consistently have fewer and fewer resources at hand, while being asked to manage more complex enrollment cycles. This shouldn't be a wait-and-see experiment, when there are plenty of institutional and market level data to inform decisions.

Perspective on Predictive Analytics Products from a Data Scientist
SightLine and NACUBO paired up on April 27, 2021 for a webcast on Optimizing Enrollment to Yield Increased Net Revenue

SightLine, Inc., is a growing boutique analytics firm providing targeted, easy to interpret predictive analytics and market intelligence solutions for colleges and universities. We empower higher education institut

Making Enterprise Quality Predictive Analytics Accessible to Higher-Ed Institutions of All Sizes
HOUGHTON, MI - Now more than ever, higher education needs to re-examine opportunities to leverage data, a readily available resource for all institutions. COVID has disrupted higher-ed in a way that was never expected.

Universities across the country have been financially strained due to COVID-19 operational disruptions. It is more important than ever to manage institutional financial aid budgets effectively and efficiently.

Join me as I chat with Ashley Kern and Erin Thompson of Sightline. We dive deep into how Colleges and Universities should be utilizing their data to pivot during and after the pandemic. Who is thriving? Who is struggling?
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SightLine teamed up with the Association of Governing Boards (AGB) to offer a webinar on balancing enrollment
This article is part two of a two-part series to help your institution bounce back from the disruption of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 virus has completely changed life in America after just a few short weeks. Every day schedules, our shopping and eating habits, and even our interactions with friends and family have been disrupted.

As the VP of Enrollment or Director of Financial Aid, you may gain a better idea of the size and caliber of your incoming student class as the enrollment season progresses.

A hands-on approach to predictive analytics provides both the data and support for solutions.

Identifying individual students who are at-risk of dropping out is often a subjective exercise in higher education.

Predictive Analytics in a World of Choices

As higher education continues to leverage student data and make predictions as to whether students will enroll, be retained, and graduate, the inevitable question that comes up is … why do students behave the way they do?
