Success of Students Redirected to Liberal Studies Mary-Pat Stein, Liberal Studies, Humanities

Who are the students that are redirected to the Liberal Studies (LS) Program? How effective is the Liberal Studies Major in graduating students once they get directed to the LS Program? Are there areas where resources could be used to help students so that they do not get redirected to the LS Major? Guiding Questions

Students Directed to LS 2012-2016 and 2017 Who are the students that are redirected to the Liberal Studies (LS) Program? Students Directed to LS 2012-2016 and 2017 Total of 1537 Student Files

How effective is the Liberal Studies Major in graduating students once they get directed to the LS Program? Students that Graduated LRS Average GPA Pre-LRS = 2.59 Average Units Pre-LRS = 97.3 Total Grad Units = 134 Total LRS Units = 36.8 Total GPA at Grad = 2.75 Average Semesters to Grad = 3.1* *may also have summer units Findings

Earlier Intervention Could Help Are there areas where resources could be used to help students so that they do not get redirected to the LS Major? Earlier Intervention Could Help