Addressing the College Completion Challenge: How Shepherd University is Driving up Graduation Numbers with Lower Cost and Fewer Credit Hours

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By Kimberly Scranage The national agenda is now focused on outcomes in higher education, especially student graduation rates. Nationally, only 60 percent of full-time students earn their degree in eight years. Part-time rates are even lower, landing at only 24 percent. Recent research from national education policy groups, such as Complete College America, suggests that…

WVU researchers help PBS series look for secrets under the ground

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They may have spent more than 30 hours rattling through the air in a twin-engine aircraft and traveled almost 3,500 miles roundtrip, but for West Virginia University researchers Paul Kinder and Adam Riley their most recent data-gathering excursion was an opportunity they couldn’t pass up. The duo, researchers with the Natural Resource Analysis Center in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources…