Webinar: Identifying and Tackling Barriers to Course Completion

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Low course completion rates are a significant barrier to student progress. They lead to longer time to degree, potential loss of financial aid and scholarships, and a reduction in the likelihood of retaining students.

  • Watch our on-demand webinar to learn about four common causes of low course completion rates revealed by our research, ways to prioritize courses for improvement, and best practices to implement on your campus to improve course completion and promote student progress.

     

    During our webinar, we also share how Samford University drove a 19.1 percentage point increase in the completion rates of two key gateway courses by leveraging Academic Performance Solutions technology and best practice resources.


  • Meet our EAB Experts

    Rodger Patience, Director and Faculty Member

    Rodger Patience is a Director and Faculty Member on EAB’s Academic Performance Solutions team. He works with both member-facing colleagues and the DC-based team of data scientists and software developers to help improve academic decision making and benchmarking. As a faculty member at EAB since 2014, Rodger has coached leaders in higher education on topics such as leading amidst uncertainty, change management, accountability, the foundations of finance, and the art of data-driven conversation.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Rodger spent 15 years in database management for fundraising and business process improvement, first at the Field Museum of Natural History and then at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), an academic medical center in downtown Chicago. Rodger holds a BA in English from Eastern Illinois University and is currently pursuing coursework at Bexley Seabury Seminary and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.


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    Ben Galina, Associate Director
    Ben specializes in helping executive teams develop plans for institutional success and change management with Academic Performance Solutions (APS). He brings experience from prior roles in technology implementation and strategy at EAB, as well as years of experience in academia research and teaching Latin American literature. Ben holds a PhD of Philosophy in Hispanic and Latin American languages, literatures, and linguistics from Vanderbilt University.

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