Posted on January 7, 2013
Rethinking Remedial Education: The Role of MSIs in Serving Underprepared Students in the 21st Century
Rethinking Remedial Education: The Role of MSIs in Serving Underprepared Students in the 21st Century
For the United States to achieve a significant increase in degree attainment, institutions of higher education must adopt new approaches to meeting the needs of underprepared students — and minority-serving institutions are especially well positioned to do so, a report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy argues. Rethinking Remedial Education: The Role of MSIs in Serving Underprepared Students in the 21st Century (10 pages, PDF) notes that, in serving students from historically underserved and disadvantaged communities, MSIs typically have implemented policies, instructional approaches, and support strategies which ensure access to opportunities, facilitate learning, and promote agency among students. The report highlights themes emerging from the
Lumina MSI-Models of Success initiative as well as a variety of promising practices, including dual enrollment, early assessment, and summer bridge programs that identify the need for remedial instruction early; acceleration models that shorten semester-long courses, break up traditional curricula into skill-based units, and/or mainstream students directly into college-level courses with additional supports; and learning communities.
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