Retention Management System Plus™

Which students should you intervene with first?

The early-alert Retention Management System Plus (RMS Plus) is a comprehensive suite of student success assessments and analytics that help you identify which individual undergraduates are most at risk, gauge students' receptivity to assistance, connect at-risk students to the most appropriate campus resources, and design or fine-tune appropriate support services.

This system also gives you detailed summary data on the needs of student cohorts, making it easier to help groups of students complete their educational goals.

Earlier, more focused interventions

The following are all part of the RMS Plus. By using all four of these early-alert research tools, you'll stay in touch with your students' needs, interests, motivations, and challenges while encouraging their continued progress toward degree completion:

College Student Inventory™—Prioritize your interventions more efficiently by assessing the strengths and challenges of each incoming student. Administered before or early in a student's first term.

Mid-Year Student Assessment™—Compare the strengths and challenges of your students at the mid-point of their first year and adjust your interventions accordingly with this follow-up survey.

Student Retention Predictor™—Utilize predictive modeling to identify the likelihood that each incoming student will persist.

Second-Year Student Assessment™— Extend and strengthen your interventions beyond the first year using this survey for second-year students.

See survey samples, schedule a demonstration

• See samples of the assessments 
• Sign up for a Student Retention Predictor demonstration.

Save time and effort identifying students' needs

By identifying risk factors early, the Retention Management System Plus (RMS Plus) helps you focus and prioritize your campus outreach. Here's how the system benefits your campus:

Receive the data you need when you need it the most

The RMS Plus delivers a wealth of information about your students at the most critical junctures in your students' careers: before their first term, after their first term, and at the beginning of their second year. This allows you to assess students before they even set foot in their first class, intervene early, and then build on that first intervention in subsequent terms and guide students to ongoing success.

Prioritize your efforts and increase your success

Identifying which students need the greatest assistance helps you focus your efforts and marshal your limited resources more effectively. The RMS Plus shows you which students need your immediate attention.

Personalize each intervention so it's more meaningful and effective

With the RMS Plus, you have the data you need make each intervention more relevant to the student: the academic motivations of students, their levels of personal support, and their receptivity to assistance. You connect students with the most appropriate campus services, helping students receive the assistance they need while you use your resources more efficiently.

Take an educationally sound approach to student retention

The RMS Plus is grounded in sound educational practices. It uses motivational assessment to make timely and effective interventions, facilitating the integration of students into your campus community.

Increase accountability by using data to guide action and communication

With the RMS Plus, you have the data you need to meet accountability demands and guide your decision making. You'll be able to justify decisions, benchmark your success, and assess your student success initiatives.

Find help when you need it

At every stage of using the RMS Plus, you can contact an experienced Noel-Levitz consultant for guidance and assistance. You're never left without the support you need to serve your students.

Centralize your data through the Retention Data Center

The RMS Plus comes with a secure, password-protected Web site where you manage and act on your student data: The Retention Data Center.

This powerful-yet-intuitive portal provides increased flexibility for using reports and data from the RMS Plus, including multiple student grouping capabilities. It has varying levels of secure access, so that everyone from administrators to advisors can use it without compromising privacy.

You even receive a campus-specific URL that allows you to brand the opening screen with your logo and school colors.

Questions? Please contact us

If you would like further information, please contact us.