Case Study Reveals Profound Success of Bard High School Early Colleges

A case study from Ithaka S+R—an independent, nonprofit research center—finds that the Bard High School Early College model improves access, affordability, and success in higher education for its students. “With an emphasis on providing rigorous college coursework and training, particularly for lower-income and minority students, the BHSECs have established a curriculum, faculty, and admissions process with proven results for their students in terms of graduation and college enrollment rates,” the study finds. For other institutions, particularly selective colleges, interested in expanding the reach of a rigorous liberal arts experience to students from a range of backgrounds who do not historically have access, early college should be considered as a strategy: “The BHSECs have shown what is possible with such an approach.”

Post Date: 12-03-2019