CSU turned away more qualified applicants than ever last year — 1 in 10 students, or 31,000 people. One reason is that for years, CSU has forced tens of thousands of underprepared freshmen to take remedial, high-school level classes that provide not a single credit toward graduation. No more. For the first time this fall, CSU has disposed of those no-credit classes that not only slowed students down in their march toward graduation, but worked at cross-purposes with the university’s goal of freeing up seats and professors to enroll more students. They believe they’ve come up with a better idea: replacing the remedial classes with college-level courses — for credit — that are still supposed to help lagging students catch up.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: October 8th, 2018, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.