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2019 How Personalized Support and a Culture of Data Can Jumpstart Student Success When graduation rates plateaued, the University of South Florida turned to predictive analytics and a case management approach to student support — with striking results. By David Raths The University of South Florida has had formal programs to improve graduation and student success rates for a decade. The institution launched a Student Success Task Force in 2009, and was able to raise six-year graduation rates from 48 percent to 68 percent in 2014. But those gains plateaued two points shy of the state of Florida’s benchmark to 34 CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY | Oct/Nov 2019