of students who start do not finish
Both SPARC and Corvus DM surface institutional intelligence that has never existed before. Not because the data was not there, but because no platform was built to capture and present it.
You have enrollment numbers. You have final transcripts. You have graduation rates.
What you do not have is what happened in between: the attendance that started slipping in Week 4, the doctoral candidate whose committee fell silent for six weeks, the students who engaged with every campus resource and those who never set foot in the library after orientation.
The outcomes you are trying to improve are downstream of signals you currently cannot see. Both Corvus platforms exist to make those signals visible.
The SPARC Provost Retention Dashboard aggregates eight retention signals for every enrolled student (attendance, campus engagement, AI interaction quality, goal activity, counselor appointment frequency, assignment completion, check-in patterns, and academic standing) into a weighted risk score.
You see the institution. You see the program. You see the individual.
When a student's score crosses a threshold, the system flags them for advisor outreach before they have failed enough classes and before the GPA has dropped enough to trigger academic probation. The intervention happens when it can still matter.
Per-student and per-course attendance recorded automatically with at-risk flags for students below 70%, plus trend lines across the semester without manual reporting.
Venue visit patterns, event attendance, library and gym usage. Signals that predict disengagement weeks before it appears on a transcript.
Every SPARC conversation is scored for engagement quality, and declining interaction and type of interactions can be treated as an early retention signal.
Shows students with active advisor relationships and those with more than (60 days) without contact, enabling targeted outreach queues.
The Corvus DM Program Director Dashboard gives doctoral program leadership complete visibility into the candidate pipeline (from committee formation through final defense) without status chases or manual spreadsheet updates.
Where a candidate is in their journey, what is pending review, which committees have gone quiet, and which defenses are approaching are all visible, all live, and all in one place.
Full-funnel view from admission to graduation with stage-by-stage counts, time-in-stage averages, and cohort-year breakdown.
Shows active and pending committee reviews, faculty workload distribution, and response-time behavior across program teams.
Surfaces chapter submission history, version counts, and review rounds while flagging candidates with no recent progress.
Time-to-completion trends by cohort identify systemic delays and process bottlenecks, not just individual candidate outliers.
SPARC covers the undergraduate and graduate student experience. Corvus DM covers the doctoral candidate journey. Together, they give institutional leadership an unprecedented view of academic progress at every level.
Both platforms are designed to give provosts, deans, and institutional researchers a consistent view of academic progress across the full lifecycle (from first enrollment through doctoral defense), with each product surfacing the signals most relevant to its population.
The data has always been there. What was missing was a platform built to collect it, surface it, and make it actionable before outcomes are set.
We will walk through the SPARC retention view and the Corvus DM program director dashboard tailored to your institution's structure and programs.
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