Embattled colleges focus on an obvious fix: helping students graduate on time
“Yet while 86 percent of incoming freshmen said in an annual national survey conducted by a research institute at UCLA that they were confident they’d graduate in four years, only 41 percent at public and 61 percent at private four-year universities actually do, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which tracks this. Now higher-education institutions including the University of Washington, or UW, are working to help their students graduate on time.”