campus partner(s)

Higher Education Policy Institute

state(s)

PA

amount

$49,875

initiative

Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century

award date

11.2011

project director

Joni Finney

Higher Education Policy Institute

Grant Summary

$49,875 over 12 months to engage in research project focused on the concept of streamlining college curricula to help increase college graduation rates and control costs in higher education. This project entails working with two liberal arts colleges to analyze the transcripts of all students as they make their way through the curriculum. The data will allow the researchers to statistically model a streamlined curriculum that will yield increased graduation rates and lower costs.