composite score of 70 based on the average of 3 end-of-term placement exams (for AWA 101, ENG 088 and 089). Students who do not achieve a minimum of 70 on any single placement exam will be required during the fall term to retake that class in a QEP-designated section.

The AWA Director will coordinate the selection of students for participation in the QEP with the Office of Enrollment Management and the Registrar on a rolling basis up until May of each year and notify students before the end of May that they will be in the program. The Office of Enrollment Management, the Registrar, the Office of Residence Life, and the AWA Director will work collaboratively to ensure that students participating in the QEP are block scheduled as cohorts (of 15 students each) into their developmental and gateway classes and placed on the same wing or floor of a residence hall. The intent is to have cohorts of students who for the summer and next 4 semesters will share the same blocks of QEP-designated classes, form living/learning communities in the residence halls, with each community assigned a faculty advisor (initially their AWA 101 instructor), a Resident Assistant trained for interacting with a learning community in the dorm, and a trained student Supplemental Instructor (SI) from the Academic Center for Excellence who will live in the dorm with them.

Students who complete the summer portion of the program successfully will be admitted to the University for the fall semester. From that point forward, students who do not pass a class with a grade of C or above will remain with their cohort in future classes for which they are qualified. Such students must retake the course in the following semester. In consultation with their advisor and the Registrar, those students will be placed in a class with other students who also must repeat the course. In the unlikely event a student does not achieve satisfactory performance in any QEP-designated classes in a fall or spring semester, he or she will be dropped from the program. In the event that students leave the University and some cohorts become too small to be economically sustainable, the AWA Director and Implementation Committee will effect a reorganization of the affected cohorts to form one or more of a sustainable size.

Developmental classes under QEP management will add a lab component of two hours per week for supplemental instruction coordinated between the course instructor and the staff at the Academic Center for Excellence. ACE has a documented record of helping students to access the resources and to develop the behaviors, attitudes, and skills that encourage academic achievement through tutoring, supplemental instruction by peers and professional staff, and integration of support services with classroom instruction. (Link to Report of the Developmental Education Committee_p15_12-11-06.pdf) (Link to http://sacs.kysu.edu/requirement.aspx?id=3.4.9) This new lab component will promote mastery of subject matter by increasing student study time with guided instruction on course material. The lab carries no additional credit and is based on the curricular model for current liberal studies science courses at KSU, which requires regular classroom work and two hours of lab.

Each cohort of 15 students will benefit from collaboration among the faculty teaching them during their freshman year, who adopt in practice and philosophy a “team” approach to their students, similar to that used in the Whitney Young Honors Program at KSU, and emphasized in the University’s new strategic plan. (Link to StrateticPlan_Reference_WYC.pdf) This approach also places a new emphasis on greater collaboration with academic and non-academic support units on campus, including the Academic Center for Excellence, First-Year Experience, the Office of

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