A Homegrown Financial Wellness Program that Actually Improves Retention

Abstract

Over the past decade, the number one reason students left our University was financial struggle. Within two years of launching its Financial Wellness program, we reduced students’ self-reporting of withdrawal for financial reasons by 34%. This presentation will focus on the programming undertaken by the institution (including the use of predictive data) with the intention to continue improving our retention rate, now at a historic 74% (up 10% in the last four years).