According to the National Center for Education Statistics, colleges are facing a fundamental challenge, losing between one-third and one-half of all first-year students by year two. Are you making the right investments to improve your retention and graduation rates?
CollegeScope™, a new online curriculum and program, helps inspire college students' persistence and further President Barack Obama's mission for college completion. Institutions are finding significant value in this comprehensive resource, which helps enhance retention and success, along with building students' motivation and confidence.
Initial schools using CollegeScope are experiencing higher year-to-year persistence rate increases of up to 30%.
The CollegeScope Student Success Program is a dynamic online curriculum that helps students to maximize their potential, persist in college, and lead proactive lives. The program focuses on college, career and lifelong success to help students gain confidence, build a foundation of the basic skills necessary to thrive in college, acquire healthy habits, define success for themselves, plan for their future, and motivate them to achieve academically. The CollegeScope Student Success Program features include: individual portfolios, an interactive online textbook, student assessments, a career development program, and a dynamic set of teacher resources.
CollegeScope empowers its students by helping them learn about themselves so they can take ownership of their own success. It also provides college staff with the information they need to offer meaningful guidance and support.
The Portfolio
Each student and faculty member has their own password-protected portfolio. With the portfolio, students can access and keep track of their work, and faculty can monitor student progress, prepare for classes, and manage their groups and classes.
Interactive online textbook
A comprehensive curriculum combines 14 dynamic chapters on college, career, and lifelong success. The online textbook offers interactive exercises that are dispersed throughout each chapter including quizzes, activities, and journals that engage students in learning and ensure retention.
Student Assessments
CollegeScope integrates compelling assessments in personality type, learning styles and productivity preferences. These assessment help students recognize their strengths and talents, as well as encourages them to use this self awareness to shape their strategies for future success.
Career Development
Career development is at the forefront of this curriculum. Students are guided through career exploration, goal setting, and planning. The curriculum includes our Do What You Are program, a career development tool that matches personality type with career paths and offers student the opportunity to research potential career opportunities.
Teacher Resources
CollegeScope gives faculty the ability to create classes and groups, monitor individual student progress, grade student work, and send messages to students. With 24/7 online access, staff can easily access these dynamic tools.
The CollegeScope Student Success Program effectively reaches students and helps them to see the significance of their education and connect their educational success to their future goals. The material covers topics on college and career and lifelong success and asks students to examine themselves as physiological, social, and psychological beings. CollegeScope can be used in tandem with a variety of programs aimed at student success and persistence including:
- First-Year Experience Programs in 4-year universities and colleges
- Student Success Classes at community colleges and vocational schools
- High school to college transition courses and college readiness programs
- Outreach classes for at risk populations such as first-generation college students and minority groups
- Academic probation initiatives
- Career development classes
Click here for more information on CollegeScope's curriculum, reading level, academic rigor, and application
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Students
- Increased motivation
- Strengthened confidence
- Career planning and goal setting
- Enhanced college skills
- Develop communication skills
- Better grades
Faculty
- Dynamic course materials
- Easy to use class management tools
- Convenient Internet access to professional accounts
- Comprehensive training and support
- Shared student information
- Engaged and successful Students
Colleges and Universities
- Unified student support from various departments on campus
- Heightened student persistence and graduation rates
- Significant institutional savings
- Enriched student body
The CollegeScope Student Success Program has helped some schools increase their student persistence rate up to 90%. Click on the resources below for more information on the outcomes and findings of programs using the CollegeScope resource with their students.