The strategy to guide these students to completion rests on two factors. One factor is the students' financial ability to pay old balances and additional costs to complete their programs. The second factor is that an assessment of the degree qualifications for these students has to be completed. While this group is a priority, we are also working with students regardless of their status to assist them in completing their degrees. Students with 110 or more credit hours are a priority to target for the associate's or the bachelor's degree. Students with 50 credit hours or more are being targeted for the associate's degree.
An assessment of these students was first conducted during the 2013-14 academic year with several students being moved to completion. Efforts since the last academic semester have been to assess each student for completion through Project Graduate. Twenty-five of the 53 students have been identified and are currently enrolled. If they pass all classes through spring and summer 2015 (if applicable), they will increase the cohort graduation rate. Their success could increase our graduation rate up to 20% by the end of this cohort year.
Summer school 2016 will mark the end of the 2010 cohort. The data for the 2010 cohort consist of 608 first-time full-time students at the associate's and bachelor's levels. During the six-year cohort period, 36 of those students who have graduated from KSU to date for a graduation rate of 6%. There are 58 students in the cohort who have applied and are scheduled to graduate during the spring 2015 commencement. If this holds true, the graduation rate will rise to 15%. There are 17 students who are on target to complete their work by the end of summer school 2015, which could result in a cumulative graduation rate of 18%; and eight additional students are on target to complete by December 2015, which could result in a graduation rate of 20%. This rate could be further influenced by students that graduate during the spring and summer of 2016 culminating at the end of the cohort period.
The 2010 cohort data contains 25 students with 20 or more credit hours at the associate level that could potentially complete their work by the end of the spring term 2016. For the bachelor's degree, there are 29 additional students not outlined above, who have at least 70 credit hours and could potentially graduate by the end of the cohort completion term summer school 2016. The strategic attention given to cohort completion could potentially result in a cohort 2010 graduation rate of 29% by the end of the cohort period which is the end of summer school 2016.
The Academic Affairs team will continue to utilize all academic resources and strategies available and outlined above to achieve this goal.
The 2011 cohort consists of 566 first-time full-time students at the associate's and bachelor's levels. The cohort is one year short of the associate degree seekers cohort completion data. To date, two students have graduated. Three year's into the bachelor
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