Cal State wants to double its graduation rate by 2025
College freshmen study in a class that is part of the freshman First-Year Experience, designed to help students stay in school, at Cal State Dominguez Hills in October 2015. By 2025, Cal State aims to reduce those gaps to zero, bringing disadvantaged students up to the same graduation rates as their peers. There are goals to improve six-year freshman graduation rates and four-year transfer graduation rates, but the primary focus will be on getting students who start as freshmen out in four years and those who transfer out in two. “If we don’t get the money from the state,” trustee Steven Stepanek said, “please, we need to then be able to scale it back.” Until now, Cal State campuses have been focusing on improving their six-year graduation rates. Switching to four-year rates will mean spending more money and targeting different students, said Cal State Fullerton President Mildred Garcia.
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