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Kudos to CUNY!
What happens when a strong chancellor and a strong board pursue innovative efforts together? Students succeed! That is indeed the news coming out of the City University of New York, where, as Inside Higher Ed reports today, CUNY's Accelerated Study in Associate Program has surpassed its goal of graduating at least half of its initial 1,000 student cohort in three years. This associate program is serving as a model for a unique CUNY community college initiative due to be launched in 2012--and featured in ACTA's most recent Essay in Perspective--offering community college students a core curriculum, full time class schedule, and intensive advising. This, and an impressive freshman first-year experience program at Catholic University, were the focal points of ACTA's panel, "Want Fries With That?", at the EPI Retention conference this month in Chicago, where we argued that student learning outcomes and student retention cannot be viewed in isolation. Kudos to CUNY!
Posted by Anne D. Neal on June 23, 2010 at June 23, 2010 04:01 PM
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