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One project that’s a natural fit for collaboration is my work on data‑driven optimization of student success interventions. I’m currently building predictive models on historical advising, attendance, and LMS data to flag at‑risk students with about 82% precision. A department like Akron’s could add two big pieces: stronger methodological depth from faculty in educational analytics, and real-world testing via student capstone teams. I’d structure it as a two‑track collaboration. Track one: a year‑long faculty partnership where we co-design the modeling approach and publish jointly, with a clear data governance agreement and monthly working sessions. Track two: 2–3 student teams each semester implementing and A/B testing intervention prototypes in a sandbox environment. The goal would be to show a measurable lift, say a 5–8 percentage point improvement in term-to-term persistence, with all code and documentation open for classroom reuse.
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