Institutional Research gathered has data for
the ESL program about the cohort of students who entered the college as ESL
students in the Fall of 2001. There
were 372 students in the entering group that Fall. We used this data to answer
some basic questions about what happens, in the long run, to students who enter
our program.
How many
ESL students enter and pass English 101?
A measure of success of the ESL program is
the readiness of students for college-level composition.
After four years, 154 of the 372 students in
the 2001 cohort have passed English 098-99 and 073, and have attempted English
101.
134 of those students received a passing
grade.
How many
ESL students graduate or transfer after four years?
Another measure of success is the
achievement of degrees. After four
years, a very small number of the students in the cohort have earned associate’s
degrees, similar to the number in the general college
population.
Some students (72) are still continuing in
the ESL program, but the largest proportion of students is no longer attending
and has not earned a degree.
When they
leave, where do ESL students go?
….However, many of the students who have
left the college without degrees can be considered successful in terms of the
program’s mission: 54 students in
the cohort of 372 have entered universities.
