College Works to Reduce Failure Rates in Entry-Level Courses

College Works to Reduce Failure Rates in Entry-Level Courses

Through course redesign, embedded TAs and a culture of experimentation, the University of the Pacific is seeing returns on first-year attrition. First-year students who perform poorly in a course are particularly at risk of dropping out. To help boost retention of such students, the University of the Pacific has made strategic investments in promoting their success, including by remodeling gateway courses. During an institutional data analysis, …