Category: Student Success

2014, Research/Policy, Retention, Student Success

Education Week: New Conversations about College Access and Success

By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute Next week EPI will converge on San Antonio for our Education Week, a series of three events including our Retention 101 Workshop, the Retention 2014 Student Success Symposium, and the EPI Forum on Education & the Economy. We look forward to great conversations about important issues in student success. I thought I would take the … Continue reading Education Week: New Conversations about College Access and Success

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Research/Policy, ROI/College Outcomes, Student Success

The Future Isn’t Here Yet

By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute I read an interesting piece in The Atlantic titled “The Future of College?” about the Minerva Project, a new higher education offering by multi-millionaire Ben Nelson. Minerva has just started with their introductory class: 33 students. It does not sound like much, but it is a start. I do not know much about Minerva and I cannot find … Continue reading The Future Isn’t Here Yet

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2014, Research/Policy, Retention, ROI/College Outcomes, Student Success

Four Years Later: What Happens After College Graduation?

By Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute This morning I woke up to a New York Times article about an unemployed graduate of a for-profit institution. We’ve read many of these types of articles. Although they are mostly anecdotal, the sheer number of these articles, along with our unemployment data, assign more credibility to these writings. We know that … Continue reading Four Years Later: What Happens After College Graduation?

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2014, Financial Aid, Research/Policy, Student Success

FM and IM—You Say Potato, I like Potahto: But We Can’t Call the Whole Thing Off

By Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute A recent article published by the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Are Poor Families Really Paying Half Their Income at Elite Colleges?,” penned by Beckie Supiano and Soo Oh, reminded me of the old Gershwin tune, “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.” The graphic-based brief uses data from the University of Notre … Continue reading FM and IM—You Say Potato, I like Potahto: But We Can’t Call the Whole Thing Off

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2014, Retention, Student Success

The College Core Curriculum: Enlightenment or Gatekeeper?

By Watson Scott Swail, Ed.D. President and CEO, Educational Policy Institute According to the Community College Research Center[1] at Teachers College, approximately 60 percent of incoming community college students are referred to at least one developmental course, and less than a quarter of students who enroll in those courses complete a degree within eight years. Many of the students who take developmental courses do so … Continue reading The College Core Curriculum: Enlightenment or Gatekeeper?

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