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Students come to HCCS with many academic needs. During fall 2003, 92.6 percent of the full-time, part-time and transfer students enrolled in degree or certificate programs needed remedial math. Sixty-three percent required remedial English, and 43 percent needed remedial reading. The college’s analyses of various data found that financial aid helps students persist as they move from remedial to credit courses, but does not seem to influence their academic performance.
Achieving the Dream Goals
Achieving the Dream will help every HCCS institution provide the structure and support to:
- Create a first-semester and then first-year experience that provides the necessary basic skills and the successful orientation to HCCS services, culture and support systems that students need to succeed;
- Offer effective academic advising and counseling;
- Benefit from a comprehensive Student Progress Audit that provides an early warning system and a tracking element to help students persist; and
- Engage students in their learning and in their connections with other students, the faculty and the community.
HCCS intends to attain these goals by improving financial aid information and delivery, restructuring the mathematics curricula and course delivery, encouraging students’ engagement in learning, adding support to learning communities, improving tracking of students’ academic progress, and applying timely and appropriate interventions.
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