Community College Examines High Failure Courses

In 2009, Brian Hayden attended a professional development program for Pittsburgh area community colleges at which Kay M. McClenney, director of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, offered an idea. She said that community colleges needed to take a look at the courses with the highest failure rates. Hayden, director of institutional research at the Community College of Beaver County, decided to do just that. Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, June 1, 2011