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First Year Experience Assessment

Evidence of Impact

Currently, the course “PEAW 1300, the First-Year Experience” is serving more than 250 students per year. The First-Year Experience is a graded, three-credit-hour course, which includes a service learning requirement.

Most students who have taken this course enrolled for the following semester, as the following persistence rates indicate:

  • Fall 1995-Spring 1996 77%
  • Fall 1996-Spring 1997 73%
  • Fall 1997-Spring 1998 78%
  • Fall 1998-Spring 1999 85%
  • Fall 1999-Spring 2000 97%
  • Fall 2000-Spring 2001 83%
  • Fall 2001-Spring 2002 85%
  • Fall 2002-Spring 2003 88%
  • Fall 2003-Spring 2004 80%
  • Fall 2004-Spring 2005 87%
Updated 1.29.2009