Accessibility Dropout Seminar Study 
The Hechinger Report
MAY 18, 2020
So a recent study caught my attention because it not only copied a New York City program for community college students in three different Ohio communities but it also studied 1,500 low-income Ohio students for three years to see how many graduated when only half of them received the treatment.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2018
There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 billion a year in forgone tuition revenue, one study found.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Many, like Dzindzichashvili, interrupt their studies because of the cost. 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 Hechinger Report
APRIL 6, 2022
Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. 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.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 8, 2018
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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 25, 2021
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.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Toward the end of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Sophie Fogel spent every night studying alone in her dorm room, eating lukewarm takeout meals from the cafeteria and wondering why she bothered going away to college in the first place. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong.
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