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Ohio import of NYC community college program passed rigorous 3-year test

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Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser. Meanwhile, CUNY has cut some costs from its $14,000 program by eliminating the first-year seminar and has expanded it to 25,000 students.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. This aggressive response has helped lower the dropout rate at the Texarkana campus back to 44 percent, according to still-unreleased figures, the university says.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

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Since 2013, it has required all students taking less than a full load of classes to also take a seminar that provides them with mentors and success coaches — a package of supports for which many didn’t otherwise have time. The seminar covers themes relevant to students’ lives, with topics including hip hop and “The Immigrant Experience.”

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

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Now, she spends four days a week in an unusually small seminar-style calculus class with 31 other aspiring mathematicians and engineers. “I Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. She retook precalculus and earned an A.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

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When she walked into his first-year seminar at Dickinson College, Steve Riccio was impressed by his new student’s enthusiasm. This story about reducing the number of college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. CARLISLE, Penn.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

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The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs.

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COLUMN: Isolated in dorm rooms or stuck at home, some freshmen wonder if college is worth it

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Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. I was upset and didn’t want to be home at first, but now I’m kind of thankful,” said Asiedu, 18.

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