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From initial contact with a college to the day they finish, students have opportunity after opportunity to lose momentum and disengage with your college before they complete and claim their credentials.
Application, admission, registration and course attendance are just the beginning of the story. Students must finish! Each end-of-term and course withdrawal highlight competing life priorities and students can easily defer completing their credentials semester after semester. Finish First NC (FFNC) gives you the tools to encourage attaining a degree, diploma or certificate with a clear pathway to success.
How can FFNC advance your student success and completion efforts?
If you need help garnering support for your college's adoption of Finish First NC, send this email/letter to your college's leadership team for consideration.
A high-volume, high-impact, low-resource, low-cost solution
Finish First NC is capable of processing tens of thousands of student records at once. Rather than spending days or weeks manually auditing your students’ records, FFNC shows you who is eligible in minutes.
FFNC shows you all students who are close to completing any credential at your school, and all students who can immediately be awarded a credential.
As a low-resource solution, FFNC leverages tools NC community colleges already use—Microsoft Excel, Entrinsik Informer and Datatel/Colleague. No installation of new software is required. Since your outputs appear in Excel, you can sort your results in ways that best support the operations of your institution.
FFNC is a low-cost solution. Colleges in the North Carolina Community College System have access to Finish First NC at no cost to them.
What are FFNC users saying?
“We are now able to focus more on the review and communication with students such as contacting students who may be near completion to see about returning and finishing their degree and contacting the completers notifying them they have completed a credential with us.”
“Students are given more specific information on how close they are to completing a diploma, degree or certificate.”
“Advising is following a proactive approach of contacting students on the Near Completion list to encourage them to register if needed to complete a credential.”