We are excited to announce our recent publication! 

Finish in Four focuses on improving on-time graduation rates by removing institutional created barriers to:

• improve student retention/persistence rates;
• reduce skyrocketing student debt;
• support upward economic and social mobility of students; and
• improve institutional fiscal stability and perhaps survival for tuition reliant colleges.

Finish in Four introduces the Control Point Accountability Measurement (CPAM) model that:

• identifies processes and procedures in ten high impact areas that affect students’ ability to graduate on-time;
• introduces a building block assessment approach (recruitment-to-graduation) to determine which institutional barriers should be removed and what practices should be supported to better help students graduate;
• provides proven examples of specific data-mining, predictive modelling and best practices used by America’s colleges to improve student retention rates; and
• guides strategic planners in developing action plans that include accountability and measurable targets/outcomes.

Finish in Four  provides a field-tested College Assessment Tool (CAT) that:

• includes five scenarios of college-to-student interactions for each of the ten high-impact retention areas;
• is used by colleges and their stakeholders to access the current student success culture;
• includes an interpretive institutional score to structure discussions about whether institutional changes impacting the culture of student support should be considered; and
• provides comparative benchmarks and a quick method to empirically determine if desired student success priorities are changing.