Remediation & open admissions

After hearing about “open admissions” and CUNY in other classes, and now in Summerfield’s essay, I decided to educate myself more on the topic and get an update. Below is the URL for an article from JSTOR by Barbara Gleason from a 2000 issue of College Composition and Communication that not only provides further background on the topic, but explains how the opens admissions policy has been eliminated at CUNY and, more recently, how all the college’s remediation programs have been farmed out to community colleges. A bit of cursory research on my part reveals this to be a trend in other colleges as well, influenced not just by educational considerations (i.e. what works best for students) but perhaps more so by economics, politics, and social pressures for improved graduation rates (the shadow of No Child Left Behind casts long). This give further context to the debate of the writing center’s role in remediation.

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