Presented at: 23rd Annual Fall Leadership Conference

Finishing What You Start—Accelerated Graduation

Session Description

Nation-wide, students are taking 4.8 years and 90 credit hours to complete an associate's degree designed as 60 credit hours to be completed in 2 years. TCC's Weekend College has has successfully graduated working adults in 18 months or less, while allowing them to come to campus only one day a week on the weekend. The success of this program promotes an educational design for the busy adult learner.

Session Goals

In this session we will cover:

  1. How to select the students for this program
  2. How to select the faculty for this program
  3. How to effectively administer this program
  4. Lesson learned while developing the program

Full Description

Nation-wide, students are taking 4.8 years and 90 credit hours to complete an associate's degree designed as 60 credit hours to be completed in 2 years. TCC's Weekend College has has successfully graduated working adults in 18 months or less, while allowing them to come to campus only one day a week on the weekend. A blend of the correct students, the correct faculty, and intensive student engagement is the key to success. This program began with 69 students and we have now served over 2,000 students in two years, filling over 4,000 seats on the weekend.

Presented by: 
Pearse, David

Single Session

10:40 am - 11:30 am

Room: 

Instruction Building