Educators at Kentucky’s Community and Technical Colleges plus universities are establishing a new strategy for incoming freshmen with below benchmark academic achievement scores.
Participants at the Kentucky Association for Developmental Education conference focused on co-requisite course work. Eastern Kentucky University Director of Academic Readiness Kathy Williams says the traditional course of action would be to first place these students in non-credit bearing courses.
“The co-requisite model that the state of Kentucky is trying to move to would put those students into their credit bearing courses,” Williams said. “They would get credit for the course. They would have an A, B, C grade.”
Williams says support for these developmental students include summer boot camps and academic tutors during the semester.
