Using what’s called predictive analytics, U.T. analyzes mountains of data from former students’ records to identify those current students, many from low-income families, whose odds against graduating are greatest. It then lavishes them with support.
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The Telltale Data That Can Identify College Students at Risk
The University of Texas in Austin has created a University Leadership Network that connects students who, based on their data points, are less likely to graduate on time. They study together, work on internships and get other means of support.
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Paul Tough wrote this week’s cover story about an experiment at the University of Texas to close the graduation gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.
Under Cover: Strength in Numbers
This week’s New York Times Magazine cover story is about an innovative student-retention program at the University of Texas at Austin. For the accompanying cover image, the magazine recruited Bill McCullough, an Austin-based photographer, to shoot 24 students from the program….
Who Gets to Graduate?
Read an in-depth article by The New York Times’ Paul Tough featuring the University of Texas’ work to increase graduation rates for Longhorns like Vanessa Brewer…