The first-year results aren’t just promising; they’re eye-popping.
Retention crept back up in 2005-2006, to 64.9 percent. Even more importantly, the numbers of freshmen on probation dropped 45.6 percent, while the numbers on the Dean’s List (a B+ average) rose 220 percent and those on the President’s List
(a straight-A average) rose 342 percent.
But what if JCSU were straining to meet some national accountability standard that barely acknowledged its history, traditions and enrollment population? Could they have turned that into a springboard to the kind of innovation the institution is engaged in right now? Or would a
national accountability mandate have been a stranglehold?
More importantly, is Margaret Spellings even asking herself these kinds
of questions?
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