GoalQuest Inc. today announced that it will debut FYRe™ v.2, a greatly expanded version of its Web-based student development and success program, during the 26th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience sponsored by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience© and Students in Transition. This year the conference will be held February 16-20 in Addison, Texas.

FYRe v.2 enables colleges to deploy comprehensive Web-based curricula tailored to their institutional objectives and unique student audiences. GoalQuest began developing interactive retention-focused curricula in 2000, and has since built programs for an array of higher education clients, including four-year public and private institutions, community colleges, online degree programs, faith-based schools, career colleges and graduate schools.

The result of more than six years of quantitative and qualitative research, FYRe immerses students in engaging lesson themes and editorial features, self-tests, interactive quizzes, first-person digital video narratives, e-portfolios and online community features, such as blogs and messaging. The product supports school administrators with real-time data to help combat student attrition, promote critical learning outcomes and improve overall satisfaction. Colleges have an unprecedented degree of flexibility in that they are now able to customize their programs with hundreds of topics, each carefully produced and organized by theme, audience type, historical popularity and other factors. The program’s content development will be advised by the GoalQuest FYRe Advisory Panel, chaired by Dr. Jennifer Benson Jones, Director of Retention at The University of Alabama.

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"From its origins more than two decades ago at the University of South Carolina, this conference has been foremost a meeting about transformation – transformation in how we teach students and transformation in how we foster their success," said Peter Tomassi, GoalQuest vice president of product development and editor-in-chief. "FYRe, too, has begun to transform the student experience by prompting a sea change in the way students interact with success-oriented content. We believe the Annual Conference is the ideal venue to introduce our next-generation FYRe program."

GoalQuest welcomes conference participants to join company representatives at its booth in the Exhibit Hall. During the conference, the company will also host the first in a series of FYRe Symposia, an information and discussion workshop. GoalQuest will offer a similar session during the ACPA/NASPA Joint Meeting in Orlando, Florida (March 31-April 4). For information about attending either session, please contact Tracy Howe at 212-868-3500 x108 (e-mail tracy@goalquest.com).