Guest Book Submission: Submission #698

Message When Karen joined the Recruiting and Retention meetings, she recognized that Larry Abele wanted to lead with data. Although she demonstrated a strong grasp of data, she approached me one day and asked what it took to move the retention rate 1 percentage point, I illustrated that if we bring in 6,000 freshman, then 60 would be 1 %age point. More importantly, 6 students would constitute 1/10th of a point - enough to round up. That changed the equation and she said any office can save 6 students.