In Fall 2005 students who placed into WR 115 and WR 040 or who were provisionally admitted students were places in 2 linked courses, WR 115 Introduction to Expository Prose and HUM 207 Seminar in Critical Reading and Thinking. We repeated this linking in Fall 2006.  Below are the preliminary findings which show that the retention rate for students enrolled in the linked courses were higher than those enrolled in another WR 115 course with different curriculum or linking to a seminar.

Fall 2005  Core 101

Cohort           Fall'05           Fall '06              Retention

Core 101           87                 63                       72%

Control Group    78                 46                       59%

Fall 2006 Core 101

Corhort          Fall'06          Winter '07          Retention

1                       20                     20                   100%

2                       20                     19                     95%

Total Core 101  40                     39                     98%

Control Group   35                     30                     86%

See Core 101 Chart for another view of the statistics.