Finish-in-Four helps college leaders improve graduation rates to insure future success and growth of their institutions.

The national agenda for higher education is expanding beyond student access to include an emphasis on student success--graduation.  This shift is occurring because of growing concerns about the college student drop-out rates.  Nationally, less than one in two full-time students graduate with a bachelor’s degree in six years.  The rate is worse for many minority students.   Only one in three full-time students achieve community college degrees within six years.   This high drop-out rate combined with an above inflationary rate of tuition increases has placed higher education in the "cross-hairs" of public opinion and legislative support.

In addition, the high school student pool relied upon to replace unsuccessful higher education scholars in the past is drying up.  College leaders that don’t successfully shift from focusing on access to include student success as means to keep enrollments steady may find that they are locked into programs, capital investments and employment scenarios that will place their institutions at risk. 

Finish-in-Four  works with  college leadership to identify institutional barriers that may prevent students from graduating on-time, or even at all.  Our proprietary developed check-list is used to evaluate your college’s effectiveness in ten critical student success functions—beginning with recruitment and ending with career placement.   
 
Finish-in-Four consultants  will analyze what is working and where institutional efforts should be shifted to strengthen student graduation rates. The process establishes quantifiable objectives for each of the ten success functions and assigns accountability for high impact- steps that can impact student success as measured by graduation rates. By providing information that will help colleges redirect resources to high impact areas, funding wastage will be controlled and tuition costs can be held in check.  

Finish-in-Four  will help your college excel by establishing measurable operational  standards and individual accountability for performance.  This will make it possible for your college to identify and remove institutionally created barriers and subsequently improve student success--graduation rates.