Abstract
As provost of a regional university, Tristan Denley has pioneered initiatives employing predictive analytics and choice architecture to improve college completion and students' academic success.
He created Degree Compass, a course recommendation system that successfully pairs current students with the courses that best fit their talents and program of study for upcoming semesters. More recently he has expanded on Degree Compass's functionality by creating the MyFuture system, which informs students about majors. The system uses data-mining techniques to find the courses that are the best indicators of success in each degree program—the courses that capture the flavor of each major—then uses Degree Compass's predictive technology to find the majors in which a student will be the most academically successful. In this webinar, Tristan will explore the impact of this work on institutional and student success as well as future directions in using predictive analytics to improve college completion.