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Over the past year, Del Mar College in Texas has doubled down on identifying and supporting students who were close to earning a degree but at risk of not completing.

Companies like Echo360 and Civitas Learning collect data on student performance and use predictive analytics to personalize education experiences.

Del Mar College, one of the top awarders of associate degree to Hispanics, announced today a 38 percent increase in the number of credentials awarded this graduation season, reflecting the results of the College’s year-old initiative to increase degree completion.

Del Mar College announced a 31 percent hike in its graduation rate and a 38 percent increase in awarded credentials, a news release states.

For more than a decade, Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation has been making grants to organizations that support its mission of increasing the number of adults obtaining postsecondary credentials.

Civitas Learning, whose predictive-analytics platform several hundred colleges and universities are using to monitor student success, announced that two philanthropies, Lumina Foundation and Valhalla Charitable Foundation, had invested in the company. The two foundations, which a news release described as "social impact" investors, joined venture capital and other firms that, together, have poured more than $70 million into Civitas.

Civitas Learning today announced the addition of new social impact investors, including Lumina Foundation and Valhalla Charitable Foundation, to extend the effect of using learning data to improve higher education outcomes and graduate more students.

Civitas Learning today announced results from personalized pathway work with leading colleges, which have seen significant, positive impact in their student success initiatives. Rooted in findings from their work during the last five years, students from more than 300 colleges and universities are better able to choose, navigate, and finish strong on a productive pathways to completion.

The team consists of nine data scientists, led by their Chief Data Scientist David Kil, and works on a variety of different projects. Their work leads to predictive and scalable models while collaborating with engineers, data engineers and the product team. We connected with John Daly, a member of Civitas’s data science team, who began using machine learning algorithms in grad school.