Paths to Completion
What keeps students from finishing their college degrees? How can we help them complete? Bonnie Becker is leading a data-driven effort to find answers to these questions.
Student Voice Research Report
UW Tacoma partnered with Tacoma Community College (TCC), the Foundation for Tacoma Students, and Degrees of Change on a project to understand why students leave college. Becker and Senior Director, Student Transitions and Success Amanda Figueroa played an active role throughout the year-long process. Interviews were conducted with 53 students who left TCC or UW Tacoma before completing their degree. The findings were compiled into a report called: “Why Do Students Leave College? Student Voice Research Report.” The goal of the project to better understand the barriers students face to completing their education and to develop strategies to help them succeed.