Paul
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 01:39 PM, dennis roberts wrote:
let us not forget that ... and this is NO small potato ... there is considerable pressure ... sometimes explicit ... that we as institutions (read that ---->>> faculty) need to do more to RETAIN our students ... we need to be student/user friendly ... to make our programs as "attractive" as possible ... recruiting/retaining/bringing in students is big $$$ ... there is so much more an attitude today (and has been growing) that WE are in COMPETITION with other schools and we have to maintain and INCREASE our market share
you don't act on these institutional pressures by FAILING more and more students ... quite the contrary, you do just the opposite
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