Cassandre Alvarado talks about the success of the PACE program, and recent changes that have been made to better reflect the needs of students at UT Austin.
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Active Engagement With Professor’s Key to Job Satisfaction Later On
David Laude talks about the relationships students build with their professors, and how it can impact the likelihood of finding engaging work after graduation.
Kill the grading curve?
The success of the strategies being developed at UT-Austin to help at-risk students raises another question about the curve: If more disadvantaged students are now passing, will instructors need to find other students to fail?….
Behind the Cover Story: Paul Tough on Keeping College Kids in College | The New York Times | By Jeannie Choi
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…