Overview

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StudentSpace is a software service providing company which specializes in student tracking and retention software for universities and colleges in USA. The company started in 1998 and has served over 250 institutions. At StudentSpace, our main goal is helping the universities and colleges to achieve highest retention and graduation rates. Over the years, StudentSpace has grown to be the largest student Information and intelligent data tracking company in North America. ​

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StudentSpace’s products are based on research done in partnership with the US Department of Education and social institutions supporting social causes. Our software helps measure success of all university efforts; helps universities get accreditation by improving student’s success and learning outcomes. StudentSpace’s Software helps universities & colleges in effectively tracking and using grant monies to raise the level of student success overall.

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Our services like, Predictive analytics helps identify at-risk students at an early stage in the ongoing semester, the Early Intervention system does timely intervention and assists students in time so that they don’t drop out or fail their classes. It shows the specific areas that the student might need extra attention. Instructors can proactively reach out to students who are struggling to take corrective actions before it’s too late.

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History

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StudentSpace was born in the high deserts of Northern New Mexico in 1998 when a group of educators who had an extreme student centric philosophy got frustrated with the existing systems in use. The first major gap addressed was student advising, as known to all - correct or accurate student advising is the most important experience for a student which directly impacts their successful time in college. This, retention which is apart described by Dr. Tinto that student retention starts in the class room.

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However, to be placed in the right classroom, proper advising is a must. While the college was using POISE software, the student advising module developed by StudentSpace was implemented in the advising department. This vision soon grew to incorporate student retention, education planning and basic institutional research analytics. Within two years, more than 8 campuses were using StudentSpace’s tracking system in New Mexico. Most of these campuses were funded by Title V Grants. The Title V grants were focusing on increasing retention and graduation rates for his-panic students. StudentSpace designed around the students became the number one choice for these grantees to meet their goals and compliance. One important out of many excellent student tracking features was cohort tracking in which learning communities could be created/tracked and retained by implementing early intervention.​

 

Beyond a vision of educators in search of an extremely user-friendly system this product was the first to incorporate early intervention module which completed or complemented the student tracking advising services and education planning which were already in the system. The combination of excellent software creators and a consortium of New Mexico and Texas colleges gave further impetus to this mission. In presentations and conferences, StudentSpace was treated like the launch of apple by Steve Jobs. Many Title V/III Directors would get up in the audience and explain can I write the cheque right now for the software?

 

This dedication and enthusiasm were due to an extremely well-designed software with the simplify of point and click covered the complex algorithms behind who's intelligence and output was the dream of any educator for his or her students. The education plan, whenever its new features were launched in conferences, the users would await it like a launch of new iPad or iPhone. The software and its mission spread to Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, New Jersey and all the way to Alaska. It impressed the department of Education so much that anyone including StudentSpace product in their proposals would usually get funded. The staff at US Department of Education were so impressed by this, that they made an exception to their policies and attended a StudentSpace conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.