GATEWAY COURSE SUCCESSGateway not “gatekeeper”

Too many entering freshmen need remediation.

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51.7%of those entering a 2-year college enrolled in remediation

19.9%of those entering a 4-year college enrolled in remediation

Source: Fall 2006 cohorts

If you’re African American, Hispanic, or a low-income student, you’re more likely to be headed toward the remediation dead end.

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Source: Fall 2006 cohorts

Most remedial students don’t make it through college-level gateway courses.

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Source: Fall 2006 cohorts

Most remedial students never graduate.

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Source: Completion data: fall 2006 cohorts; graduation data: 2-year, fall 2004 cohorts; 4-year, fall 2002 cohorts

Gateway course completion is a significant benchmark

• The default placement should be a gateway course.

• Students needing support should receive it in the gateway course as co-requisite rather than pre-requisite support.

• Students should take the “right” math that aligns with their program: Statistics, Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra

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Start students in college courses and provide needed help as a co-requisite, not a prerequisite.

For students with few academic deficiencies: place

them in gateway courses with co-requisite support built-in.

needing more help: provide the gateway course stretched over two semesters instead of one.

with substantial academic deficiencies: provide alternate pathways to high-quality career certificates with embedded remediation.

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In a new model students may fail. But if we continue doing what we are doing – they will fail.

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