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Annual Reports2005-2006 Annual Report2006-2007 Annual Report2007-2008 Annual reportLEAP had a great year in 2007-2008. In addition to offering 23 LEAP sections (same as last year), we piloted the new ALLY program during spring semester, acquired a wonderful new Executive Assistant, Leo Leckie, hired a new faculty member, Becky Larsen, to teach in the expanding ELEAP program, and, in order to strengthen fall-spring retention, reversed the sequence of semesters: the majority of LEAP classes offered 1101 in the fall and 1100 in the spring. This switch meant that students could satisfy two graduation requirements in the spring through 1100 (one humanities and the diversity requirement) rather than just one, as had been the case when the second semester was 1101, thereby enhancing—at least this was the hope—the appeal of, and the students’ motivation to continue with, the second semester. The experiment was a resounding success. With the traditional 1100-1101 sequence, fall-spring retention last year hovered around 64%. This year 74% of students enrolled in LEAP 1101 during fall semester elected to continue with the second semester of LEAP 1100. Overall fall-spring retention for the entire program was even higher at 77%. And it should be noted that student satisfaction with LEAP remained astonishingly high through this transition: 91.75% of students responding to the 2008 LEAP Spring Survey felt that their expectations were met or even exceeded by their LEAP experience! Additionally, 87% of former LEAP students who completed the 2006-2008 Survey of Graduating Seniors rated their LEAP experience as either “beneficial” or “extremely beneficial.” Click to read the whole report. |
