The City University of New York will today announce a major expansion of a program that has had remarkable success at improving graduation rates of community college students. CUNY plans to enroll all new full-time students at Bronx Community College in the program, with a goal of having a 50 percent three-year graduation rate.
There are many efforts around the country showing progress at improving community colleges’ graduation rates. But CUNY’s announcement today — including a goal of applying one of the most promising of these programs to an entire college — represents an effort to take such a program and bring it to scale, something that has not generally been attempted.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/16/cuny-launches-plan-bring-community-college-graduation-rates-50
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