About Us
AspirEDU was founded by educators who are creating solutions to the problems of educators. We saw that the EdTech market did not include data-driven retention software that could automatically identify at-risk students before it was too late to save them. AspirEDU takes pride in building software bridges between new-age LMS’s and retention teams.
Kimberley Munzo, CEO
The creator of Dropout Detective, Instructor Insight, and Retention Radar. Kim founded AspirEDU because she needed a better, more automated way to identify at-risk students. Since Kim could not find such a solution on the market – she built it. As a career educator and Director of Online Learning, Kim sees the benefits of using data to help schools find struggling students before it is too late to save them.
Don VanDemark, CTO
With both enterprise and start-up experience, Don is able to relate to both worlds and bridge the gaps. Being a part of AspirEDU since the beginning has allowed Don to lead our technical team in developing features our users need while trying to stay ahead of an ever-changing technical and educational world.
Christopher Munzo, EVP
Chris handles sales, contracts, and partnerships for AspirEDU. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Brown University and started his career in banking. That led to sales of banking software and eventually to the EdTech space. Chris focuses on working with university presidents, directors of online learning, high school principals, and technology experts to identify the schools’ needs and match them with the benefits of AspirEDU solutions.
AspirEDU’s Mission is to helps schools help more students graduate. We analyze the data that schools already have. This allows our solutions to identify students that are most at risk of dropping out of or failing courses, and to identify the best practices that instructors use to maximize the performance of their students. Retaining more students is good for schools and even better for the students themselves.
EdTech Solutions
- Identifies at-risk students every day based on grades and engagement.
- Publishes an easy-to-use dashboard with red, yellow, green risk ratings.
- Sends automated text and email messages to students based on LMS data.
- Provides a place for advisors and instructors to note student contact.
- Allows administrators to see the behaviors of top instructors.
- Reviews timeliness of grading, engagement in courses & other indicators.
- Provides all of the data necessary for instructor evaluations.
- Summarizes the percentage of high-risk students in each course.