About the Webinar
Wanting to learn how our Starfish super-users identify students who need the most support? Join Starfish Administrators from Ramapo and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College for a Q+A session to learn more about their use of Retention Scores. This event will be a follow up from our previous webinar, which you can watch here.
Joe Connell
Assistant Vice President of Student Success
Ramapo College
Joe has worked at Ramapo since 2012 and with the Starfish project since 2013. During that time, Joe has served as both the functional manager and the executive sponsor for the Starfish work. He worked with a professor and his Vice President to integrate a homegrown predictive model into Starfish starting in 2014 through Success Plans and attributes. Joe earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Lycoming College and a master’s in College Student Personnel from Miami University (OH).
Matthew Petersen
Manager of Student Retention
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Matthew has served as Starfish system administrator since 2019. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from Truman State University and a Ph.D. in Human Physiology from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has taught in the biological sciences for over 15 years, and has served in several administrative positions at. He has also engaged passionately in NWTC’s student success agenda for over a decade, with an emphasis on expanding the availability and use of data to promote evidence-based growth and transformation.