Gary Linnen
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323 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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So what we do know is that generally speaking, individuals are graduating about 26, it's about 20% of individuals, excuse me, graduate by the age of 24 in six years.
Like that is a significant challenge.
And so, and the major drop-off tends to be between their first and second year.
And so we look at fall to spring retention rates and fall to fall retention rates.
And what we've found in some of our partner schools is that due to that mentoring program, we have a 71% higher completion rate of individuals going to college and decreasing the amount of time it takes for them to do it, which has been very, very promising for us on the college side.
That's deep, Joe.
That's totally deep, man.
But I would say, like, those are the transactional, the major KPIs.
The one that we cannot measure that by far is anecdotal is the transformative experience for our young folks.
And so...
The fact that they come back, I mean, literally from 1993, and they're still volunteering with us.
They're still serving as a writing coach.
60% of our staff are alumni.
And we've been very intentional about that.
It's a part you can literally never measure because it's the heart of the connections that literally is immeasurable and an invaluable experience for them.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
I mean, it's, it's, it's a blessing and a curse because I'm like, go, go home.
They don't want to go home.
But I love it though.
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