Academic Rigor and Student Success Lunch Discussion

Professor John M. Braxton of the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Program at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University led a discussion on the role that course examination questions play in the process of student persistence in private residential colleges and universities.  His analysis utilized a sample of 408 first-time, full-time undergraduate students at eight private residential colleges and universities as described in Rethinking College Student Retention (2014) by Braxton, Doyle, Hartley, Hirschy,  Jones and McLendon.