Oakwood College prioritizes connections – between college students, workers and school – as a necessary a part of the worth they provide their educational neighborhood. In an effort to increase that worth past their bodily campus, directors have chosen READY Schooling to convey these connections into the net world by means of the OU Join cellular app.
“OU Join digitizes the connections that matter for profitable educational and profession outcomes for college students attending Oakwood College. It’s READY platform connects these very important contact factors to offer high quality assurance metrics which might be distinctive to Oakwood College’s academic-career pathway.” – Prudence Pollard, Vice President at Oakwood College
Supported by a beneficiant UNCF grant, the OU Join app builds on the READY Schooling platform, which has been demonstrated to enhance pupil retention by as a lot as 4% at main faculties and universities. Past the personal social community it offers that drives pupil engagement, READY Schooling seems to be ahead to bringing its insights from a whole lot of different establishments to delivering key alerts that can allow the staff at Oakwood to boost pupil success and intervene primarily based on actionable insights that point out retention dangers.
“For a few years as an establishment we’ve felt the necessity to put the entire essential pupil success companies on the fingertips of our pupil physique” mentioned College President Leslie Pollard. “The Twenty first-century means of doing that’s by attaching an App to their units. We’re grateful to the United Negro Faculty Fund (UNCF) and the Lilly Endowment, Inc. for the numerous funding in our establishment.”
The Oakwood College neighborhood will be capable to obtain OU Join on iOS or Android units when it launches this Fall.
