Quality Enhancement Plan

One destination. One goal. One Blinn.

Destination Success: First-Year Focus is a program designed to help first-year college students make the transition from high school to college coursework. To do this we created learning communities, which research has shown increase students’ learning outcomes and retention rate. In creating these learning communities, we have identified four courses with high first-year student enrollment but success rates below the College average. The pilot program began in Fall 2015 with seven learning communities on three Blinn College campuses. First-year students placed in learning communities took three courses together, including a college success course, as part of a single cohort. These learning communities included interaction among students, faculty, and staff to enhance the learning experience.