May 14, 2004

Accurate Measures of Graduation Rates

To the Editor:

In response to Stephen Burd's "Graduation Rates Called a Poor Measure of Colleges" (The Chronicle, April 2), I would like to stress the importance of including all students when determining success rates. We should not omit certain students from our calculations because of the presumed difficulty of the process.

At Old Dominion University, we admit approximately 2,000 first-year students and 2,000 transfer students each year. We believe in accessibility and

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