KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY Regular Meeting of the Board of Regents Academic Affairs Committee January 21, 2016 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Cooperative Extension Building, Conference Room Frankfort, Kentucky
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Regent Elaine Farris, Chairperson, called the Academic Affairs Committee meeting of the Kentucky State University Board of Regents to order at 10:00 a.m. on October 22, 2015. Regent Farris asked the secretary to call roll:
Elaine Farris Present Mindy Barfield Not Present Elgie McFayden Present
Syamala Reddy Not Present
Syamala Reddy Not Present Diamond Gordon Present
A quorum was declared.
Minutes of the April 23, 2015, meeting were approved. Motion was made by Regent McFayden and seconded by Regent Gordon.
Dr. Lynda Brown-Wright began the meeting with an executive summary. She gave an update on 2009 Cohort Final Graduation Rates and reported a six-year graduation rate of 22.4%. She stated graduation rates are low and gave a comparison from past cohorts. She said the Academic Affairs team was working on ways of identifying problems and reaching out to the former students to try and get them back into the classrooms. Dr. Brown-Wright discussed a plan to improve graduation rates and stated that funding had been received from USA Funds to assist with contacting students in default to encourage those students to return to KSU. She further emphasized that in order for the graduation rates to improve, faculty, staff, and students must all be held accountable. Expectations of students and professors need to be established early. More efforts are needed to engage the students to ensure they have a firmer foundation for academic success.
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