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UT plans to boost 4-year grad rate
Plan would take it from 53 percent to 70
Updated: Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012, 5:10 PM CST
Published : Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012, 5:10 PM CST
AUSTIN (AP) - A new University of Texas at Austin report says the school can raise four-year graduation rates to 70 percent with better early academic advising for students and other proposals, such as offering flat-rate summer tuition rates.
Those are just two of the dozens of ideas outlined in the Wednesday report.
Texas currently graduates about 53 percent of its students in four years. UT President Bill Powers wants that rate up to 70 percent by 2016.
The report says quicker graduation saves money for students and allows the schools to bring in more new students every year.
The report is the latest response to recent criticism of state universities by Gov. Rick Perry and conservative critics who have questioned schools over research, teaching, cost and graduation rates.
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