Event Title

Concurrent Sessions - Increasing Post-Secondary Student Success through Concurrent Enrollment: How Higher Ed Institutions Can Lead Reform at the High School Level

Location

Campus Center Lower Level, 9th Floor, Room 911 - University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Event Website

http://www.umass.edu/studentsuccessconference/index.php

Start Date

11-10-2013 1:45 PM

End Date

11-10-2013 3:00 PM

Description

Concurrent enrollment programs provide high school students with the opportunity to earn college credit in the high school taught by high school instructors who have been certified to teach by a sponsoring higher education institution. Once in college, Alumni of UConn's Early College Experience, one of the largest concurrent enrollment programs in the country, have higher first semester GPA's and are more likely to graduate on time.

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Oct 11th, 1:45 PM Oct 11th, 3:00 PM

Concurrent Sessions - Increasing Post-Secondary Student Success through Concurrent Enrollment: How Higher Ed Institutions Can Lead Reform at the High School Level

Campus Center Lower Level, 9th Floor, Room 911 - University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concurrent enrollment programs provide high school students with the opportunity to earn college credit in the high school taught by high school instructors who have been certified to teach by a sponsoring higher education institution. Once in college, Alumni of UConn's Early College Experience, one of the largest concurrent enrollment programs in the country, have higher first semester GPA's and are more likely to graduate on time.

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/studentsuccess/2013/Schedule/5