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(Molly Farmer, Deseret News) -- Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, sees room for improvement in Utah's higher education system and hopes to draft legislation that would increase retention and cut back on the need for remediation of the state's college freshmen. Urquhart, co-chairman of the higher education appropriations subcommittee, introduced a handful of ideas Wednesday he hopes will turn into...
READ · Oct 20
(Nancy Van Valkenburg, Standard-Examiner) -- Only 16 percent of Utah public college and university students who enroll full time at in-state, four-year programs actually graduate four years later, a national study of college-completion rates has found. Give the same group another two years, and you'll get an extra 24 graduates per 100 original enrollees. Double the original four years to...
READ · Oct 06
(Randy Shumway, for Deseret News) -- Today's column is uniquely personal for me. When my wife, Maureen, and I first met, she had recently returned to the workforce in order to save money to later return to college. Shortly after we married, we made a decision that would forever change our lives. Despite our meager earnings, we determined that...
READ · Oct 04
(Brian Maffly, Salt Lake Tribune) -- Utah high school students have been able to coast into college for years because the state’s open-enrollment universities take any applicant with a diploma. But in the face of weak rates of completed degrees, key educational leaders are wondering whether it’s time to erect modest barriers to give high schoolers an incentive to...
READ · Oct 04
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