Learn how to boost student engagement, create a strong campus community, and drive higher retention rates. Examples will include how: 1. Lyon College students were 2.43 times more likely to attend events 2. McGill University saved over 250 FTE employee hours and answered over 1,500 new student questions 3. Lindsey Wilson College saw a 17.5% decrease in semester on semester attrition rate

1. The Pillars of Student Success
OOHLALA Webinar Series

2. What you will learn today
• The mindset of a Gen-Z student
• The three pillars of student success
• Why Lyon College students were 2.4
times more likely to attend events
• How McGill University saved over 250
FTE employee hours during orientation
• What enabled Lindsey Wilson College to
affect a 17.5% decrease in attrition rate
• Answers to your questions

3. About Haider
• Over 10 years working in Higher Education
• B.A. – Economics and MBA – Leadership
• Director of Content and Strategic Partnerships
• Multiple conference presentations, including
CASE
• Twitter: @_haider
• Email: haider@oohlalamobile.com

4. About OOHLALA
• Mobile OS for Higher Education
• Built with efficacy, data and
integration in mind
• Over 175 partners and counting
• Over 90% of surveyed students
recommended the app to friends
• Featured in EDUCAUSE, TechCrunch,
Forbes 30 under 30 and Campus-
Technology

5. Gen-Z and Mobile Technology

6. The Changing Lives of Generation Z Students
• Average attention span: 8 seconds
• 61% would like to be entrepreneurs,
rather than employees, after college
• Average mobile penetration: 85%
• Time spent socializing: 7.6 hrs/day
• Check their mobile device: 150 times/day
90% of the world’s top institutions have a
mobile app

7. What is Student Success?

8. Dr. Vincent Tinto | Syracuse University
• Self-Efficacy: Belief in ability to succeed
• Sense of Belonging: Members of a
community
• Perceived Value of Curriculum: Value of
learning influences motivation to persist
• “Institutions have to adopt the student
perspective and ask how … they should
act so that more of their students want to
persist to completion.”

9. Lyon College: Engagement

10. Lyon College
• Four-year institution in Batesville, AR
• Religious/Lib-Arts | approx. 650 students
• Key Issues:
• Students didn’t know when events
were happening
• Difficulty in navigating complex
systems to understand where
information resided
• Student Perspective:
• Ability to engage is limited
• Perceived value of experience is low

11. Lyon College – Students First

12. Lyon College – Engagement Impact

13. Lyon College – Event Attendance
0.73
1.78
Non-App Users App Users

14. McGill University: Community

15. McGill University
• Four-Year institution in Montreal, QC
• Research | approx. 40,000 students
• Key Issues:
• Large, complex, decentralized
institution
• Students can feel detached
• 1 in 5 international students
• Student Perspective:
• Difficult to navigate systems
• Ability to connect with people – can
be overwhelming

16. McGill University – Students First

17. McGill University – Building a Community

18. McGill University – Institutional buy-in

19. Lindsey Wilson College: Retention

20. Lindsey Wilson College
• Four-Year institution in Columbia, KY
• Rural Campus | approx. 2,200 students
• Key Issues:
• First-generation students
• High attrition rate
• Widespread disengagement
• Student Perspective:
• Perceived value of education
• Disengagement from Faculty and
administrators

21. Lindsey Wilson College – Immediate Impact

22. Lindsey Wilson College – Creating Persistance

23. Lindsey Wilson College – Attrition Rate Impact
32.7%
15.2%
Non Users App Users

24. Recap: What we learned today
• The mindset of a Gen-Z student
• The three pillars of student success
• Why Lyon College students were 2.4
times more likely to attend events
• How McGill University saved over 250
FTE employee hours during orientation
• What enabled Lindsey Wilson College to
affect a 17.5% decrease in attrition rate

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