Areas needing improvement:
The CCSSE survey for the College showed that in many areas, the College needed to improve its scores. Specifically it was below the average for its cohort on the benchmark of active and collaborative learning, 47.4% to 50% cohort. Compared to the top-performing college it was 47.4% to 59.8%; academic challenge, 49.5 to 50 cohort, and 49.5% to the top-performing college 57%; for student-faculty interaction, it was 49.1 to 50% cohort and 47.4% to 58.1% for the top-performing college;for the support for learners category, the result was 49.2% to 50% cohort and 49.2% to the 58.6% top-performing college.
These are the areas that the curriculum under review is intended to address.
Note that there is also a section of the survey that looks at the faculty strengths and weaknesses in the five areas mentioned. The focus of the survey appears not on strengthening staff but on the overall goal of improving student graduation rates.