Risely for community colleges
Know who will start before the term begins.
Risely's agents work inside the application portal, the aid platform and the workforce system a community college already runs. They do the work a staff member would do and bring it back finished for an enrollment counselor or an aid officer to approve.
The front door and the start rate
An admitted student should not vanish before registration.
Risely's agents follow each admitted student through placement, advising and registration, and they draft the text that names her placement time and two sections that fit. Your counselors see who stopped before census, and the message is already written.
Financial aid
Verification should move the day a document lands.
Risely's agents compare the tax transcript against the aid file and send an officer both readings of the line that differs. Your aid officer decides in minutes, and the student has her grant before the term starts.
Advising and completion
The next course should already be chosen.
Risely's agents keep each student's next four terms chosen and re-solve the plan the week her work hours change. Your advisers keep hundreds of plans current, and the credential date holds.
Workforce and non-credit
A non-credit learner should sit on the same record.
Risely's agents match the workforce file to the credit record and show that the phlebotomy learner and the nursing applicant are one person. Your program director can offer her the degree the certificate leads to.
Four systems, one applicant.
The application portal gives an applicant one number. The student information system creates another at registration. The aid platform and the workforce system each hold their own.
Risely Fabric resolves them into one record without replacing anything, which is what makes a student visible before census rather than after it.
The stakes are measured. First-year retention at community colleges was 55.0 percent for the fall 2022 entering cohort, per the National Student Clearinghouse.
The apportionment arithmetic behind this page is published, with sources, in Risely AI Research: Every college buys its class twice.