Center for Access and Transition(CAT)

Growing enrollment, better retention, a diverse student population and higher graduation rates are the result of minimum admission standards introduced at the University of Cincinnati in 2006. The next step toward implementing these standards – known as “academic success criteria” – will take place next year. Effective Fall 2010, freshmen admissions to the University of Cincinnati Uptown Campus will be limited to those students who meet the university’s academic success criteria (1). Applicants who do not meet the criteria will be referred to UC’s regional campuses in Blue Ash and Batavia, or to affiliated programs at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.

(1) http://www.admissions.uc.edu/counselors/CNSLR_Academic_
Success_Criteria.html

The move coincides with the directives of the University System of Ohio “Strategic Plan for Higher Education 2008-2017,” which assigns developmental education responsibilities to community colleges and regional campuses. With the change in admissions the university will reorganize its Uptown campus developmental program, known as the Center for Access and Transition. The Center was created in 2004 to provide concentrated developmental assistance to students who did not meet the academic success criteria. The Center will be eliminated as an administrative unit, and its developmental programs will be restructured throughout the university. Simultaneously, all remaining associate-degree programs will be moved from the Uptown campus to the regional campuses or to Cincinnati State. Some regularly admitted baccalaureate students will still need developmental courses, and the university continues to study the best means of delivering that instruction. In addition, the university will continue to admit a limited number of students at the Uptown campus who do not meet the academic success criteria established by the faculty but who demonstrate preparation in other ways. The success criteria, developed from an analysis of student performance and retention, reflect a nationwide trend of raising admissions standards to build on success toward retention and graduation. Many of UC’s selective academic programs have higher admissions criteria.

SOURCE: http://www.uc.edu/News/NR.aspx?id=10500

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