{"id":2106,"date":"2018-05-16T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T18:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2018-05-16T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T18:12:37","slug":"georgia-state-lauded-for-student-success-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/05\/16\/georgia-state-lauded-for-student-success-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia State Lauded for Student Success Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Georgia State University has reinvented itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy focusing on retaining low-income students, rather than just enrolling them, the college raised its graduation rate to 54 percent from 32 percent in 2003,\u201d according to a recent New York Times<\/em> article. \u201cAnd for the last five years, it has awarded more bachelor\u2019s degrees to African-Americans\u2026than any other nonprofit college or university in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials from the university \u2014 a NACAC member institution \u2014 say data analysis and targeted supports have helped boost student success. Advisers monitor the daily progress of the school\u2019s 40,000 undergrads and act quickly to provide assistance at the first sign that a student is struggling.<\/p>\n

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Summer sessions to help acquaint at-risk students with the college\u2019s tutoring, advising, and financial literacy programs have also proven beneficial.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo prevent dropouts, Georgia State has developed a series of linked programs meant to provide the kind of safety net for poor students that wealthier students usually get from their families,\u201d the article notes. \u201cFor example, in 2011 the administration began disbursing microgrants of a few hundred dollars at a time to help students deal with unpaid tuition and fee balances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full article<\/a> and learn more about Georgia State\u2019s efforts to combat summer melt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia State University has reinvented itself. \u201cBy focusing on retaining low-income students, rather than just enrolling them, the college raised its graduation rate to 54 percent from 32 percent in 2003,\u201d according to a recent New York Times article. \u201cAnd for the last five years, it has awarded more bachelor\u2019s degrees to African-Americans\u2026than any other … Continue reading Georgia State Lauded for Student Success Initiative<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-completion"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-xY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}