Sam Houston State Sees Payoff With Advising Center
For those who put a premium on graduation rates, Sam Houston State University probably fails to impress, with 30 percent of students getting their degree in four years, 54 percent graduating in six years and 58 percent graduating in a decade, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
But for the university — one of the state’s oldest — it’s a marked improvement from its position 10 years ago. The four-year rate is now about even with the state average and the sixth-highest at a public university in Texas. In 2002, the four-year rate was at 17 percent and ...
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Ray Grasshoff via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Good, insightful piece ... and kudos to Sam Houston State. But there's a strong belief among many influential people today that any additional investment beyond faculty teaching all day, every day in the classroom ... and faculty generating income through the results of their research ... is wasteful and drives up the cost of education unnecessarily. So financial resources needed for providing more effective, labor-intensive advising at colleges and universities across the state will probably be hard to come by.