Susan Gershenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)
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Colleges and universities that want to boost completion rates among underrepresented students may want to pay closer attention to students' first-semester GPAs, which are reliable predictors of whether students will persist to graduate or drop out, suggests new research by Susan Gershenfeld, who conducted the research while earning a doctorate in social work at Illinois. Gershenfeld's co-authors were educational policy studies professor Denice Ward Hood and social work professor Min Zhan, who also was Gershenfeld's thesis adviser.
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