Tade Oyerinde: CUNY ASAP achieved 51% completion rate through four support principles
Tade Oyerinde · Ep 71: No Debt, Top Professors & Personal Coaches — A New Community College with Tade Oyerinde · Joe Lonsdale · Nov 23, 2023 · at 10:50
Tade Oyerinde, Chancellor of Campus, explains to Joe Lonsdale how Campus models its community college retention strategy after CUNY's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs.
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“They've been able to achieve a 51% completion rate In their CUNY ASAP program, the Accelerated Study of Associate's Degree programs where they basically found if you did four things, you can get students to graduate about 50%.”
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