September 25, 2011
Students With Learning and Social Issues Have More College Options
Benjamin Rasmussen for The Chronicle
Alexis Meier, a sophomore at the U. of Colorado at Denver, has dyslexia. She calms her anxieties by playing with Dylan,a golden retriever provided by the College Living Experience for students with learning disabilities.
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Benjamin Rasmussen for The Chronicle
Alexis Meier, a sophomore at the U. of Colorado at Denver, has dyslexia. She calms her anxieties by playing with Dylan,a golden retriever provided by the College Living Experience for students with learning disabilities.
The program that Rebecca Hansen heads at Marshall University would make any growth-minded administrator happy: It started with just one student nine years ago, but now receives five times as many applicants every year for the 10 students it admits. Students pay $3,600 for the program each semester, on top of tuition. And since all but two of the 38 current students come from out of state, they're providing a boost to the West Virginia college's tuition revenue.
But the trend
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