Case Study: Arkansas Tech University improves student retention and impresses accreditors with Modern Campus Involve

Impressing Accreditors & Improving Student Success Through Data at Arkansas Tech University

Arkansas Tech University, a public university, faced the challenge of not having reliable data to prove the critical connection between student engagement and retention. This lack of evidence made it difficult to secure resources from institutional leadership and guide student participation. To address this, they partnered with vendor Modern Campus and implemented its Involve platform to better collect and analyze student engagement data.

The solution provided by Modern Campus gave the university immediate access to powerful data analytics and reporting tools. This allowed them to definitively prove that specific activities, like community service, correlated with a 94% first-year retention rate, significantly higher than the 72% average. Modern Campus Involve also streamlined their re-accreditation process by enabling them to generate reports on-demand for site visitors, proving the value of their co-curricular programs with hard data.

Arkansas Tech University

Brett Bruner

Dean of Student Engagement