Martha Lanaghen

Martha Lanaghen

Location: boulder, colorado

About me

Career College executive with more than 25 years experience working with companies to build unique customer and student experiences that engender loyalty, persistence and successful outcomes.  My work spans the full lifecycle from lead to graduation and employment.

Interests

retention and employment outcomes

Activity

No current activity available.

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]]> Career College executive with more than 25 years experience working with companies to build unique customer and student experiences that engender loyalty, persistence and successful outcomes.  My work spans the full lifecycle from lead to graduation and employment.

]]> With increasing percentages of our incoming freshmen requiring foundational coursework, we were seeing an increase in early academic struggles.  Several terms ago, we implemented a mandatory tuturing requirement for all first-term students.  Essentially, the requirement is that the first assignment in any general education course must be reviewed by one of our tutors (all available for free, and we offer an on-line resource that's available 24/7 as well).  The student turns in their original work, the tutor's suggested changes, and their revised paper.

The wonderful outcome of this has been that their first grade (when they're the most tenuous about their aiblity to succeed), is typically passing, if not a good grade.  And they also get introduced to the tutoring center which has helped increase continuing student usage of the tutoring center.  The policy has improved first-term GPA and persistence.

I know most schools in our sector are offering free, or low-cost tutoring options for students.  Has anyone else implemented mandatory tutoring processes?  Say for SAP students, or first-term?  What have your results been?  Do you have observations about how students are reacting to this policy?

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Martha Lanaghen

Martha Lanaghen

Location: boulder, colorado

About me

Career College executive with more than 25 years experience working with companies to build unique customer and student experiences that engender loyalty, persistence and successful outcomes.  My work spans the full lifecycle from lead to graduation and employment.

Interests

retention and employment outcomes

Activity

No current activity available.

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]]> Career College executive with more than 25 years experience working with companies to build unique customer and student experiences that engender loyalty, persistence and successful outcomes.  My work spans the full lifecycle from lead to graduation and employment.

]]> With increasing percentages of our incoming freshmen requiring foundational coursework, we were seeing an increase in early academic struggles.  Several terms ago, we implemented a mandatory tuturing requirement for all first-term students.  Essentially, the requirement is that the first assignment in any general education course must be reviewed by one of our tutors (all available for free, and we offer an on-line resource that's available 24/7 as well).  The student turns in their original work, the tutor's suggested changes, and their revised paper.

The wonderful outcome of this has been that their first grade (when they're the most tenuous about their aiblity to succeed), is typically passing, if not a good grade.  And they also get introduced to the tutoring center which has helped increase continuing student usage of the tutoring center.  The policy has improved first-term GPA and persistence.

I know most schools in our sector are offering free, or low-cost tutoring options for students.  Has anyone else implemented mandatory tutoring processes?  Say for SAP students, or first-term?  What have your results been?  Do you have observations about how students are reacting to this policy?

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