Those that thought Higher Ed IT was only useful in the classroom are wrong! Higher Ed IT is now working to offer technological solutions to an issue plaguing many universities: retention.
The Robin Hood foundation, New York’s leading organization committed to fighting poverty, started an initiative in 2014, called the Robin Hood College Prize—the prize is a total $5 million dollars to any organization that can come up with a technological solution to aid community college students in graduating on time.
The three organizations in the running are: Beyond 12, the Education Advisory Board, and Kinvolved. The winning organization will boast a $3.5 million dollar prize, while the other two take home $1.5 million and $500,000 dollars, respectively.
Each team continues to work toward creating a technological solution that will “double the graduation rate of full-time students with remedial needs by fifteen percentage points in three years,” according to the Robin Hood Foundation website.
The Robin Hood foundation, however, isn’t the first organization to put stock in technological advances: in September 2014, The U.S. Department of Education launched its First in the World competition, allocating $75 million dollars to Higher Ed institutions with IT projects that could better retention rates. The state of California followed suit in March 2014, backing projects from 24 state institutions with $50 million dollars to improve retention rates.
read the full article at EdTech Magazine.
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