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Fewer Students, Higher Standards
December 9, 2011 - 3:00am
By
Elizabeth Murphy
Johnson C. Smith University saw its enrollment fall by 200 in 2009, and it is looking to cut programs in the coming year. But these are good things, says Ronald Carter, the university’s president.
In 2009, the university capped admissions about 200 students short of the year before because of a commitment made by administration, faculty and the board of trustees to increase the academic standards at the private, historically black college in Charlotte. The faculty also just completed an exhaustive reexamination of the curriculum. The move was notable, given the longstanding mission of Johnson C. Smith, like many black colleges, to be open and welcoming to students who might not be admitted elsewhere. Some worry about the university moving away from that mission, but university leaders and some others say the college is shifting in an important way toward an emphasis on academic rigor, with the goal of graduating more students, not just admitting them
There have always been black institutions — such as Morehouse and Spelman Colleges — with highly competitive admissions. While the changes at Johnson C. Smith aren't bringing the university into that level of admissions competition, they do represent a move in that direction and away from the approach of admitting most who apply.
“We look carefully at every student and say, ‘Is this is a good fit?’ †Carter said. “That is raising standards in raising in that question."
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/...tion-johnson-c-smith-university#ixzz1hCEvLm1N
Inside Higher Ed
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December 9, 2011 - 3:00am
By
Elizabeth Murphy
Johnson C. Smith University saw its enrollment fall by 200 in 2009, and it is looking to cut programs in the coming year. But these are good things, says Ronald Carter, the university’s president.
In 2009, the university capped admissions about 200 students short of the year before because of a commitment made by administration, faculty and the board of trustees to increase the academic standards at the private, historically black college in Charlotte. The faculty also just completed an exhaustive reexamination of the curriculum. The move was notable, given the longstanding mission of Johnson C. Smith, like many black colleges, to be open and welcoming to students who might not be admitted elsewhere. Some worry about the university moving away from that mission, but university leaders and some others say the college is shifting in an important way toward an emphasis on academic rigor, with the goal of graduating more students, not just admitting them
There have always been black institutions — such as Morehouse and Spelman Colleges — with highly competitive admissions. While the changes at Johnson C. Smith aren't bringing the university into that level of admissions competition, they do represent a move in that direction and away from the approach of admitting most who apply.
“We look carefully at every student and say, ‘Is this is a good fit?’ †Carter said. “That is raising standards in raising in that question."
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/...tion-johnson-c-smith-university#ixzz1hCEvLm1N
Inside Higher Ed
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