{"id":40483,"date":"2016-04-04T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=40483"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:15:58","slug":"wright-states-dan-krane-named-to-state-post-on-college-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/04\/04\/wright-states-dan-krane-named-to-state-post-on-college-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State\u2019s Dan Krane named to state post on college retention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dan Krane is professor of biology and former president of the faculty at Wright State.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State professor Dan Krane has been named special assistant for completion initiatives by the Ohio Department of Higher Education to help college students make it to graduation by developing new ways to do math remediation.<\/p>\n

Krane has also been named chair of the Wright State Task Force on Affordability and Efficiency, whose mission is to deliver on the Board of Trustees\u2019 commitment to provide students with options that enable them to reduce their costs of getting a degree by 5 percent and to meet the State of Ohio\u2019s reporting requirements outlined in the Governor\u2019s Task Force for Affordability and Efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth of these things are about affordability and efficiency for students, but there is also a retention component,\u201d said Krane. \u201cThe more we help our students succeed, the more financial support the state gives the institution. We want our students to succeed. We want to figure out where they need help and make their path straighter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krane, who is also chair of the Ohio Faculty Council, will continue to teach biology courses<\/a> at the university.<\/p>\n

At the Ohio Department of Higher Education, formerly the Ohio Board of Regents, Krane is helping implement a grant that supports an effort to encourage universities to develop new ways to do math remediation, especially co-remediation, so students can take credit-bearing courses that count toward their degrees at the same time they are shoring up weaknesses in their math backgrounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudies have shown that the sooner students perceive that they are taking courses that count toward a degree, the better they do,\u201d said Krane.<\/p>\n

As a member of Wright State\u2019s Task Force on Affordability and Efficiency, Krane is charged with making sure the university is making progress on degree cost reduction.<\/p>\n

One way is to reduce all degree programs to 120 credit hours. Many degree programs were changed to 120 credit hours during the university\u2019s conversion from quarter to semesters while Krane was Wright State\u2019s faculty president, but a few are still above that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an excellent opportunity for us to give our students more affordable options for their degrees,\u201d said Krane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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