Jaguars to the Core: Cultivating General Education Success in Math & English
The Southern University at Shreveport Louisiana (SUSLA) QEP is being developed to stem the tide of the lack of student success in developmental studies courses. The title of the QEP is as follows: “Jaguars to the Core: Cultivating General Education Success In Math and English.” The goal of the SUSLA QEP is to increase passage rates in Developmental Math and English to enhance student success. The Expected Outcomes of the QEP are listed below:
Expected Outcome 1: The institution will develop a Math and English Resource Center to provide supplemental assistance to students in Developmental Math and English courses to meet expectations of those courses.
Expected Outcome 2: Faculty will redesign course content and course sequences in Math in an effort to help students more quickly navigate developmental studies Math to decrease the time spent in those courses before being eligible to move to the gateway courses.
Expected Outcome 3: Faculty will redesign course content and course sequences in English in an effort to help students more quickly navigate developmental studies to decrease the time spent in those courses before being eligible to move to the gateway courses.
Southern University at Shreveport (SUSLA) is committed to the success of our students. Therefore, we are investing the resources to develop a QEP that will serve as the framework and vehicle to usher in a new era of teaching and learning. The success of the QEP will manifest itself in the successful establishment of the Math and English Resource Center and increased passage rates in developmental math and developmental English courses. Ultimately, these actions will increase student progression in developmental studies courses that could impact the success in gateway courses and should have a positive impact on student success.