Open enrollment doesn’t mean flying blind.
Your students arrive with a wide range of skills. RISE shows you what your successful students look like, so you can help every student become one.
Open enrollment is your model, and it works. But an open door doesn’t mean you have to guess who needs support, or wait until a student is overwhelmed to find out.
RISE gives every incoming student a readiness assessment built on the skills career-focused programs require. The assessment doesn’t decide who gets in — you already made that decision. Instead, it builds a picture of your student population, program by program, and connects it to what actually happens: who makes it past thirty days, sixty days, ninety days, and on to graduation.
Over time, that picture becomes your most valuable enrollment tool. You learn what your successful students and graduates looked like when they walked in the door. Then use intervention training, either before they enroll or during their first term, along with your support services to close the exact gaps the data identifies for each student.
Every school works on retention. Few systems measure how it’s affected by the skills students have when they come in.
RISE connects intake readiness to outcomes so patterns become visible: if students who struggle early share a common weakness in reading comprehension or information literacy, you’ll see it — and you can build intervention programming against it, backed by your own data.
Improvement doesn’t wait until you have graduation data.
Thirty-day, sixty-day, and ninety-day success signals surface early friction points after your first cohorts. You adjust your support strategy as the data comes in, then keep refining as graduates confirm the picture.
Getting through a program takes more than reading and math.
RISE can measure more than cognitive skills. Persistence and readiness are an option on every assessment, because getting through a program takes more than reading and math. When your data shows your successful students share strong persistence, you can build coursework that develops it in everyone else.
One school, more than one strategy.
Open enrollment across the school doesn’t have to mean identical everywhere. RISE can be configured by program, so each program can have its own successful student profile and its own intervention plan — welding’s gaps aren’t nursing’s gaps.
Enrollment strategy isn’t permanent.
If your outcome data ever shows a program would benefit from a readiness bar, you can add one — for that program only — without changing assessments, retraining staff, or losing your historical data. Open enrollment stays your model everywhere it’s working.
Made for the schools that make careers.
RISE was developed on research into the skills graduates of career colleges, trade schools, and community colleges actually use on the job. It measures what employers are looking for in your graduates, not abstract college readiness.