Overview
Santa Fe College (SF) is in the process of using grant funding to expand its capacity to serve low-income students by improving academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability.
SF will increase completion for at-risk underrepresented students, employ evidence-based interventions, and conduct a rigorous evaluation of those interventions.
The 2013 Florida Senate Bill 1720 exempted incoming students from mandatory college placement testing and enrollment in remedial, otherwise known as developmental education (DE), coursework. As a result, the large number of underprepared students who enroll at SF are now opting out of DE and enrolling directly into college-level courses, courses that do not include remediation.
These students are bypassing advisement best-practices and are not receiving remediation in foundational skills or college success skills. SF has explored strategies designed to help retain underprepared students and move them rapidly through core courses and, ultimately, through program completion. In the current environment, this could only be accomplished by re-envisioning an entire approach to remedial education.
The following documents provide updates as to the progress of SF's efforts. Accessible versions can be made available upon request.