Personalized Education Key To Post University's Success

WATERBURY, Conn., Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- With a 127-year history of innovation and serving students in Connecticut and worldwide, Post University^® continues to evolve as a go-to education force. Focusing on qualities that set it apart from other schools, the University now is contemporizing its brand – literally and figuratively – reinvigorating core values with renewed emphasis on personalizing student experiences, providing students continual support teams, streamlining student processes for a seamless experience from enrollment to commencement, and creating a new visual identity that symbolizes the importance of these enhancements.

According to CEO John L. Hopkins, not only is Post^® attracting the academic community's attention, it is having a significant effect on student enrollment, satisfaction, and retention. Hopkins notes spring 2017 enrollment at Post's Main Campus was the largest in 17 years, while January's online enrollment was the largest in two years. Meanwhile, student satisfaction has risen, with alumni surveys showing more than eight in 10 graduates are pleased with their academic experience and 95% saying their degree has held or increased in value.

The University's new branding positioning and visual identity are designed to reinforce its distinctive contributions to education and the community, engage and energize students, faculty and staff, and remind everyone of Post's "top down" commitment to serve its students and provide each of them a personalized learning experience leading to a successful completion. According to Hopkins, this is the cornerstone of Post University's culture.

Post Makes It Personal™ isn't just a new advertising tagline, but a re-focused cultural commitment that is manifest in every aspect of the learning experience.

"We are building Post University one student at a time, knowing that each student has different aspirations, challenges and learning styles. We passionately deliver solutions by personalizing the entire student experience as the DNA of everything we do," Hopkins says. "We do this to ensure our customers walk away with an extraordinary learning experience and new level of marketability. It's our value proposition – and what we promise."

Hopkins touts the school's highly supportive and personal stake in student success, which includes assigning each an Academic Success Coach and an entire personal support team to include Post admissions representatives, financial aid specialists, academic advisors, and faculty members, who are involved from day-one. Post now focuses on its new Five Keys to Personalization – Teams that are fully involved with students from the start; Doubling of its student advisory staff; Involving faculty as advisors in each support team; Re-engineering student readiness tests to anticipate challenges and eliminate the potential for failure; and Investing in advanced Blackboard learning tools to ensure all students grasp a course concept, for example, before moving on. The approach is designed to personalize each student experience and more effectively guide students through every step of their learning experience – from enrollment to commencement.

Post University's student-to-faculty ratio is intimate, with 90% of classes having fewer than 20 students – a case where Hopkins believes "smaller is better." Small class sizes put Post students in the "front row," enabling them to know, and be known by, their professors and classmates. Students not only receive more personalized instruction, they are able to customize their concentrations, tailoring degrees to their specific career aspirations. And, all courses are taught by faculty who have at least 10 years of in-field experience as well as advanced degrees, enabling them to draw upon, and pass along, real-world, practical solutions that often lead to successful student career opportunities.

Regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) based on the same standards used to accredit Yale, Harvard and other top schools, Post University is dedicated to creating an exceptional customer service experience that prepares each student for lifelong success. The first university in Connecticut to offer degree programs online, opening higher education to growing numbers of students, Post remains among those prestigious regionally accredited schools that offer a full undergraduate or graduate degree, online and at its picturesque Waterbury, CT campus.

The University's all new "Hands-Raised" visual identity symbolizes a bright, new future for all Post students, associates and the surrounding community.

ABOUT POST UNIVERSITY
Based in Waterbury, Connecticut, since 1890, Post University^® is known for its innovation and focus on providing every online and on-campus student an extraordinary educational experience with an unmatched level of personalized support. Among the first in the nation and the first in the State of Connecticut to offer full degrees online, Post fuels the personal aspirations and career goals of its students with inventive and robust learning technologies that deliver in-demand undergraduate and graduate degree programs, small class sizes, individual attention, and customizable degree concentrations.

Recognized for its Honors Program, NCAA Division II athletics, and its pioneering role in online education for more than twenty years, Post University is licensed by the Connecticut Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education and accredited by the prestigious New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). Its award winning Malcolm Baldrige School of Business programs are nationally accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). Post is ranked among the best by US News & World Report. Learn more about how Post Makes It Personal™ by calling 800.345.2562, or visiting www.Post.edu. For useful consumer information go to http://post.edu/consumer-information.

SOURCE Post University