For many colleges transfer enrollment is desirable but elusive. For other colleges, transfers are expensive, complicated, and offered the leftover resources. However, the impending demographic cliff will force the hand of many enrollment leaders to make some priority decisions. Among those decisions will be, being intentional about attracting non-traditional students to the college, how does my college actually serve the needs of transfers, and what can be done to retain those students enrolled through graduation. In this Enrollment Edge episode, Jay will talk to David Cook, Founder of DegreeSight, a company dedicated to providing transfer focused support that helps colleges and universities provide services to enroll, retain, and graduate more transfer students. Jay will dive into current transfer strategies with David and look into future trends that enrollment leaders will have to embrace if they want be dedicated to this underserved and often overlooked student group.  Want to discuss this episode or have questions? You can email us at [email protected] and you can contact David at [email protected].

About our Guest
David is a general innovation-centric product and data geek with a passion for efficiency and improving people's lives.  As a graduate of Baylor University, he went on to become a lead engineer overseeing Hewlett Packard's billing and credit systems by 23, became a product lead and patent author by 25, and for the past 10 years has been creating solutions for governmental agencies and fortune 50 businesses while focused on ease of use, high adoption, and genuinely improved business KPIs. However, David always saw a desperate need in higher education for this same level of support and investment around student success, and so he took the plunge 7 years ago to start building what has now become DegreeSight - the world's first affordable SAAS solution that gives institutions the ability to support their non-traditional students with smart workflows, automation, analytics, and live chat.