Unite your campus around student success

Starfish puts students at the center of a connected ecosystem where advisors, faculty, and staff can work together to empower students to achieve their academic, career, and life goals.

Student success is a shared responsibility across your entire institution

Make it easy for every department to collaborate, share data, and support students together. Everyone contributes to a full picture of each student. Everyone celebrates when they succeed.

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Advisors

Spend more time helping students and less on administrative work. Identify at-risk students to prioritize and provide targeted support.

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Faculty

Help students stay on a positive path by connecting them to resources and sharing information with advisors in real time with just a few clicks.

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Leadership

Meet objectives for retention, graduation, and equity. Increase tuition revenue, plan budgets, and meet performance-based goals. Build a culture of student success.

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Starfish Capabilities

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Enterprise Student Success Platform

Connect advisors, faculty, and all departments across campus in one student-focused platform. Streamline communication, workflows, and alerts to provide seamless support to students. Manage access to data, activity, and notes in a consolidated, secure environment.

  • Integrated Communication
  • Centralized Student Record
  • Workflow Management
  • Detailed Roles and Permissions
  • Integrations with Systems on Campus
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Advising

Personalize support for students at scale with early alerts, retention risk dashboards, centralized advising notes, and enhanced case management features. Provide seamless communication and scheduling with students and other departments across campus.

  • Flags and Early Alerts
  • Risk Dashboards
  • Enhanced Case Management
  • Scheduling
  • Student Action Items

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Student Engagement

Keep students on track toward their goals with timely, personalized messages and a centralized network of resources that make it easy for them to take action. Starfish’s mobile-friendly design ensures students can stay connected on- and off-campus.

  • Text and email nudging
  • Kudos
  • Mobile-friendly student dashboard
  • Success networks
  • Personalized success plans

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Academic and Career Planning

Help students build a roadmap to the future with customized academic plans based on past course completion, schedule preferences, and careers of interest. Students reduce unproductive credits, so they’re more likely to graduate on time and at lower cost.

  • Easy Interface
  • Degree Plans
  • Career Assessment
  • Program-level Insights

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Advanced Analytics

Use the power of advanced analytics to deliver the right support to students at the right time. Turn data into action with insights about which courses, programs, and student support strategies have the greatest impact on student success and institutional goals.

  • Student Retention Scores
  • Integration with LMS and SIS data
  • Analysis of Student Outcomes, Courses, and Programs
  • Historical Trends and Peer Benchmarking
  • Transparent Analytical Model

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We came from a place where the staff who were working with students had no access to data and were truly in the dark. Today, we’re more effective, efficient, and holistic. Starfish has completely transformed everything we do in student success.

Julie Fischer-Kinney, PhD, Assistant Provost for Student Success and Retention University of Toledo

Achieve your goals with a proven partner in student success

Our team of student success leaders, data scientists, former administrators and faculty, and Starfish product experts ensure your campus is set up for success with the Starfish platform.

Implementation & Integration

Hands-on training, flexible customization options, and seamless integrations with your LMS and SIS ensure your institution is set up for success.

Project Consulting

Drive adoption and continued success across campus with personalized Starfish training sessions for administrators, faculty, and staff.

Strategic Consulting

Build a strategic, sustainable student success program using our readiness diagnostics, planning workshops, and change management resources.

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Starfish not only creates more collaboration, but also a new-found ability to reach struggling students in enough time to help rectify issues. Our scores will go up and so will our funding from the state. We’ve begun to connect the dots between Starfish usage and revenue for the university.

Joe Murray, Assistant Dean, University Advising Services Florida Atlantic University

Get up and running in just a few weeks and see results in the first year

From our proven implementation methodology and hands-on training to seamless integrations for your LMS and SIS, Starfish is designed to get results quickly.

Resources to help you along the way

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Strategic Planning for Student Success for Fall 2021
In this webinar recording, Starfish Strategic Consultants, Dr. Chris Bridges, Dr. Ejob O’Brien, and special guest panelist Emily Pettit, Associate Vice President for Student Success, at Piedmont College, as they review best practices and challenges related to building effective strategic plans that directly support and impact student success.
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Starfish by Hobsons Expanded Impact on Higher Education Student Success During a Turbulent Year
Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 global pandemic Starfish’s student success and retention platform increased student impact and functionality for existing clients, while growing relationships with its hundreds of college and university partners.
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Are you ready to help your students define their path? Let’s talk.

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