Platform Assists Higher Ed Institutions in Retaining Students

An educational assistance platform is allowing higher ed institutions to better retain their students and help them succeed.

Aviso Retention – founded in 2012 – describes itself as a “student retention solution that helps colleges and universities solve one of the biggest challenges in higher education: keeping students engaged, optimizing the chances of student success, and avoiding attrition.”

The digital platform does this by analyzing data from participating colleges and universities to identify factors for student success and risk.

“Our mission really is to provide opportunities for student engagement that are personalized, proactive and informed by real-time data,” said Heather Taynor, Aviso’s vice president for student success.

The platform allows for the categorization of types of students, such as military and veteran students, Taynor said.

“We can automatically tag those students, whether they’re active military, veterans, military spouse, family, whatever it may be. That can be customized by the institution,” Taynor said. “And that way, they have the ability to create targeted, personalized and relevant information, messaging and alerting and all the necessary functionality that we have in Aviso specifically for certain subpopulations.”

Veteran and military students face a number of different hurdles in higher ed than the traditional college student, such as added paperwork and different deadlines, Taynor said.