SUNY is turning to mandatory tutoring to get students through intro math and writing classes

With a record number of new college students failing their first-year English or math class, SUNY is redesigning those ...
Western Michigan University

First-Year Writing Courses

Students enrolled in ENGL 1050: Foundations in Written Communication must purchase one textbook for the course. This textbook has been customized especially for students enrolled in English 1050 and ...
The College Fix on MSN

SUNY institutes mandatory tutoring, extra class time due to 'record' number of first-years failing math, writing

Key Takeaways ・Due to high failure rates among first-year students in math and writing, the SUNY system is introducing ...
The Tufts Daily

Not all freshmen are ready for college writing

The easy "A" your Advanced Placement (AP) English teacher promised you'd get in college writing classes may not pan out as expected. While honors and AP English programs aim to give high-achieving ...
Inside Higher Ed

Eliminate the Required First-Year Writing Course

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I have a Ph.D. in English, more specifically, in rhetoric and composition. My decades of academic life have been occupied by the study and teaching of ...
Case Western Reserve University

Communication Intensive Courses

Communication Intensive (CI) courses are part of the CWRU Unified General Education Requirements (UGER). The Writing Program offers a number of courses that fulfill this requirement. All CI courses ...