New data for increasing student success

[From EQUITY, pg. 1]

Three new groups were added in 2014 – veterans, students with foster parents and low-income students.

Kiekel said the three new categories are a result of the state’s recent increased investment in community college student success, which came from the passing of state bills.

“Quite honestly, the state had not put a premium on student success in the past,” Kiekel said. “But what we’ve seen since 2006 is an increasing attention to the student success initiative.”

This increased interest in student success led the state to give $426,292 to fund Pierce’s Equity

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Plan, Kiekel said. This is the first time the plan has ever received funding from the state.

“I think it’s a good thing that we want to look at these groups,”

Associate Professor of Philosophy and former Pierce Equity Plan committee member Mia Wood said.

“I’m very, very happy about the low-income demographic because so many people who come to Pierce are struggling mightily to make ends meet.”

However, the addition of the new groups has brought its share of challenges, dean of institutional effectiveness Oleg Bespalov said .

Gathering data on the new groups has been tricky because data on these groups wasn’t always