Boutelle featured at Starfish National Conference The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail Boutelle EDWARDSVILLE — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Sally Boutelle will be a featured panelist at Starfish by Hobson’s COVID Pandemic virtual conference on Thursday, March 11. Starfish helps colleges and universities achieve increases in retention rate, exceed graduation rate goals, and set the standard for student academic success. Representatives from both 4-year and 2-year institutions will discuss how they leveraged Starfish to support changed policies, processes, practices, and implementation during COVID, along with challenges they have faced and the approach to overcome those obstacles. “I’ll be sharing how SIUE jumped into action last spring to support our students as quickly as possible using Starfish,” said Boutelle, assistant director in SIUE’s Enrollment Systems, Research & Analysis (ESRA) Department. “Last spring in response to Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s Stay-at-Home order, we launched a Starfish initiative where students could ask for help by virtually raising their hand and be immediately connected with someone to help.”