  {"id":130969,"date":"2020-11-20T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=130969"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:46:18","slug":"uh-grad-rates-up-retention-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/20\/uh-grad-rates-up-retention-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"Most <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> graduation rates up, retention stable, despite pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc.jpg\" alt=\"3 students in commencement gown with sunset behind them\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-92121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/uh-commencement-students-gnrc-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> graduation rates are up and student retention remains strong across the 10 campuses of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> based on 2019&#8211;20 academic year data, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the significant disruption to the 2020 spring and fall semesters.<\/p>\n<p>Eight <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> campuses saw increases in the 150&#37; graduation\/success rate, the official rate used by the federal government. In addition, seven campuses saw increases in their 100&#37; (on-time) graduation rates. The 100&#37; and 150&#37; rates represent 2 and 3 years at the seven <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> community colleges, and 4 and 6 years at the three <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> universities. These graduation\/success rates are based on the outcomes as of the 2019&#8211;2020 academic year for students who enrolled 2 or 3 years ago (community colleges) and 4 or 6 years ago (universities).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The continuing improvement in <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> graduation rates, even in the face of the COVID-19 disruptions in the last academic year, is a credit to the work of our dedicated faculty, staff and leaders,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>. &ldquo;More than a decade ago, administrators at the system and campus levels made this a priority and began to identify and remove barriers to timely graduation, and that work continues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Graduation-andsuccess-rates-v3.pdf\"><figure id=\"attachment_130985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130985\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/manoa-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Graph of the U H Manoa graduation rate\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/manoa-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/manoa-grad-rates-2020-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/manoa-grad-rates-2020.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larger graph<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Graduation-andsuccess-rates-v3.pdf\"><figure id=\"attachment_130984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130984\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hilo-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Graph of the U H Hilo graduation rate\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hilo-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hilo-grad-rates-2020-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hilo-grad-rates-2020.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larger graph<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Graduation-andsuccess-rates-v3.pdf\"><figure id=\"attachment_130983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130983\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/westoahu-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Graph of the U H West Oahu graduation rate\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/westoahu-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/westoahu-grad-rates-2020-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/westoahu-grad-rates-2020.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larger graph<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Graduation-andsuccess-rates-v3.pdf\"><figure id=\"attachment_130982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130982\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/uhcc-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Graph of the U H Community Colleges graduation rate\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/uhcc-grad-rates-2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/uhcc-grad-rates-2020-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/uhcc-grad-rates-2020.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larger graph<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s on-time graduation rate has improved every year since 2006 and now stands at a record high 37.1&#37;, an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the prior year. The campus was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/13\/uh-manoa-wins-aplu-award\/\">nationally recognized<\/a> in 2017 for its dramatic improvement in on-time graduation. The six-year graduation rate at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is also at a record high of 61.8&#37; after improving by 1.3 percentage points. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> saw some of the largest increases in the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System with a remarkable 11.1 percentage point jump to 38.7&#37; and an increase in on-time graduation of 5.8 percentage points to record 19.2&#37;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8212;six-year: 61.8&#37; (&#43;1.3 percentage points), on-time: 37.1&#37; (&#43;0.5 percentage points)<\/li>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>&#8212;six-year: 38.7 percent (&#43;11.1 percentage points), on-time: 19.2&#37; (&#43;5.8 percentage points)<\/li>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo&#8212;six-year: 37.9 percent (-6.2 percentage points), on-time: 26.3&#37; (-1 percentage points)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Six of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s seven community colleges saw increases in the 150&#37; success rate, which includes transfers to other institutions, and five of seven saw increases in on-time graduation. <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> experienced the largest increase in on-time graduation with an 8.1 percentage point growth to 24.8&#37;. <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> saw the largest increase in the 150&#37; success rate with a 2.3 percentage point rise to 41.4&#37;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;150&#37; success rate: 38.6 percent (&#43;0.9 percentage points), on-time: 22.8&#37; (&#43;0.9 percentage points)<\/li>\n<li>Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;150&#37; success rate: 44.9 percent (&#43;0.2 percentage points), on-time: 25.9v (&#43;1.2 percentage points)<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;150&#37; success rate: 41.4 percent (&#43;2.8 percentage points\/), on-time: 16.5&#37; (-2.8 percentage points)<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;150&#37; success rate: 37.1 percent (&#43;0.6 percentage points\/), on-time: 24.8&#37; (&#43;8.1&#37; percentage points)<\/li>\n<li>Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;150&#37; success rate: 39.0 percent (&#43;2.0 percentage points), on-time: 17.5&#37; (&#43;1.8 percentage points)<\/li>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College&#8212;150&#37; success rate: 38.2 percent (&#43;0.4 percentage points), on-time: 19.4&#37; (&#43;1.4 percentage points)<\/li>\n<li>Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;150&#37; success rate: 38.0 percent (-4.0 percentage points), on-time: 15.9&#37; (-3.3 percentage points)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fall 2020 Retention Rates<\/h2>\n<p>Student retention saw some declines but held steady or improved across <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>\u2019s 10 campuses, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> residents. The one-year retention rate tracks first-time, full-time freshmen who enrolled in fall 2019 and returned in fall 2020. The COVID-19 health crisis impacted students in multiple ways beyond courses moving online including disruption in employment, tuition affordability and challenges in child and family care. Despite the pandemic, five campuses had the highest resident freshmen retention rates since 2014: five campuses had the highest resident freshmen retention rates since 2014: <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Manoa&#8212;87.5&#37;, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo&#8212;75.8&#37;, Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;55.7&#37;, <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;70.2&#37; and <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8212;69.2&#37;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a testament to many. Our students chose to persevere and continue their pursuit of higher education,&rdquo; said Lassner. &ldquo;It is proof of their resilience and it bodes well for the future of our state. Our students could not have succeeded without the amazing work of our faculty, who moved courses online with little warning, and the dedicated staff who support our students and faculty across our campuses day in and day out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa dropped 1.1 percentage points in overall student retention rate from last year\u2019s record high to 80&#37;, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo decreased by 1.5 percentage points to 71.2&#37; and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> fell by 1.9 percentage points to 74.5&#37;. One-year retention rates increased at four of the seven <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community Colleges: Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> and Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>. <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> had the largest improvement, going from 57.1&#37; to 68.4&#37;, about a 20&#37; increase.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa: 2019&#8212;81.1&#37;, 2020&#8212;80&#37;<\/li>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>: 2019&#8212;76.4&#37; , 2020&#8212;74.5&#37;<\/li>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo: 2019&#8212;72.7&#37;, 2020&#8212;71.2&#37;<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>: 2019&#8212;64.3&#37;, 2020&#8212;62.2&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>: 2019&#8212;50.9&#37;, 2020&#8212;56.1&#37;<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>: 2019&#8212;68.7&#37;, 2020&#8212;68.6&#37;<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>: 2019&#8212;57.1&#37;, 2020&#8212;68.4&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>: 2019&#8212;64.3&#37;, 2020&#8212;64.9&#37;<\/li>\n<li><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College: 2019&#8212;67.3&#37;, 2020&#8212;61.5&#37;<\/li>\n<li>Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>: 2019&#8212;60.2&#37;, 2020&#8212;61.9&#37;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> campuses saw increases in the 150&#37; graduation\/success rate and seven campuses saw increases in their 100&#37; (on-time) graduation rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,1466,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-130969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130969"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131302,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130969\/revisions\/131302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}