With the spring semester approaching, IU Southeast is implementing several different ideas to help make the student’s academic life on campus a little easier to manage, in addition to addressing the issue of student attrition. Registration for spring classes has been open since Nov. 14, but many classes are beginning to fill-up quickly. Because student dropout is worse between students’ first and second years, IU Southeast is test piloting follow-up courses to the First-Year Seminar courses. Brittany Hubbard, director of Financial Aid and interim Registrar, said the follow-up courses are to help keep students engaged and be active in their studies, while providing resources to help with issues they may face in the second semester.