How Georgia State Stopped Students From Slipping Through The Cracks
Published Jan 05, 2018
From WABE:
… The system seems to be working. Now 76 percent of students who enroll at GSU earn a bachelor’s degree on time from some institution. Also, Georgia State has no achievement gap. That means students from all ethnic groups — white, black, Latino, and Asian students — graduate at roughly the same rate. That’s also true for students from different economic backgrounds.
Mamie Voight, [then] vice president of policy research for the Institute of Higher Education Policy, said that accomplishment sets Georgia State apart.
“They recognize and say that the university has a responsibility to do what they can to close these gaps and to serve students,” she said.
Voight said that’s significant at a university where 60 percent of students are from low-income backgrounds, and 67 percent are non-white.
“They also take responsibility as an institution, and are really driven by the social injustice that these gaps embody,” she said.
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