The plan will be submitted for consideration to the Long Range Planning Committee of the Board of Trustees. We welcome this excellent working draft because it provides a broad policy framework for further enhancing quality and standards while maintaining access for qualified students. Requires all students who need remedial assistance to attend an Intensive Summer Skills Program prior to enrollment, building on the proven success of the current optional program for entering freshmen and the mandatory requirement for SEEK and College Discovery students. Limits the number of times associate degree students may repeat a remedial course.
Limits are now in place for baccalaureate programs.
Requires the passage of a test of University-approved measurement of competence at the end of the remedial sequence, with academic audit procedures to ensure compliance. Provides for further reform of remedial course-work at the senior colleges, using intensive skills and immersion programs as well as new pedagogies. Calls for the strengthening of advisement and mentoring to assist students to make informed choices, including career and academic counseling. The City University of New York, the nation's leading urban university, comprises 10 senior colleges, six community colleges, one technical college, a graduate school, a law school, a medical school and an affiliated school of medicine. More than 202,000 degree-credit students and 150,000 adult and continuing education students are enrolled throughout the five boroughs of the City of New York.