SAS has announced that Slippery Rock University is using the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education to improve student learning and success, meet performance goals and obtain funding from the state.
SAS said that the software uses data management and reporting to help the university improve recruitment, retention and graduation rates.
Using SAS, Slippery Rock tracks and shares information on student performance and quality. With SAS, the university has reportedly automated all of its enrollment reports. Employees from the president to student-life directors access information from their desktops, including up-to-the-minute data on new enrollment, quality performance measures, graduation rates, retention, registration, orientation participation and enrollment broken out by gender, race and region. The retention staff uses the system to intervene at critical times, including when midterm and final grades arrive, said SAS.
Amanda Yale, associate provost for enrollment services for Slippery Rock, said: We believed we were attracting better students, but it was hard to quantify. With SAS, we can show that our average student has a 3.3 GPA this year compared to 2.99 last year, and our percentage of students representing the top 10% and top 25% of their high school class has increased.
