More than half of the students in a special program at the City University of New York’s community colleges graduated within three years, according to new data from the system. The program, Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, was started in 2007 with the aim of graduating 50 percent of its students within three years, much higher than the national average for community colleges. More than 1,100 students started in the first year of the program, and 53 percent of them had graduated by the end of this spring. The program requires students to attend full time and provides them with a host of financial and academic supports. Initially, students had to be ready to do college-level work to join the program, though it has since expanded to include those who need remedial courses.
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One Response to CUNY Program Yields Higher-Than-Average Graduation Rates
lenoreb - June 24, 2010 at 12:43 pm
One would expect that students, gifted with free tuition, free Metrocards, expanded counseling and tutoring and free books, and admitted only if they did NOT require any remediation, would graduate at a higher rate than other students not so advantaged.CUNY should advocate that ALL community colleges and senior colleges be tuition-free, and that higher education be sufficiently funded to provide all students with these supports. Instead, CUNY and NY State are looking to increase tuition, and our budget prospects for next year look bleak, as we are warned.