If low graduation and student transfer rates at the City Colleges of Chicago don’t improve, the system’s leaders could lose their jobs. The formal responsibilities of the chancellor, presidents, and even trustees now include graduation rate goals, according to a recent article in Inside Higher Ed., by Paul Fain.
Cheryl L. Hyman, chancellor of City Colleges, began a “reinvention” of the system soon after her arrival in 2010. While the seven-college system has long welcomed urban, lower-income students who have few higher education options, Dr. Hyman argues that it hasn't done enough to help students graduate and get jobs, the article states.
This post may dovetail with a previous installment on performance funding.
Dean Dad picked up on the controversy here.
Just guessing, but it would probably be strange if stated objectives for most top Texas college administrators didn't already include a reference to improving the rates of student success. How college leaders (not to mention trustees) are held accountable in terms of precise statistics is another matter altogether.
Sooner or later someone in authority will suggest, with a straight face, that faculty contracts should mandate a certain level of passing grades.
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