Universities in Kansas state had modified its college admissions requirement on specifying high school courses as a prerequisite for application. Universities would now on rely solely on grades and scores on standardized tests achieved by the applicant.
Kansas Board of Regents has approved this proposed regulation just recently and it would be applied to all the new admissions from now onwards.
According to the board members, this regulation would raise enrollments of high school graduates at colleges and universities in Kansas to as much as 87%. It’s been observed that the number of enrolled students was on the decline ever since 2010 as per the Enrollment Reports of Kansas Higher Education. 4.2% decline in college admissions was noted just in academic session 2018-2019 which is quite threatening.
College admissions comply with new regulations
Regents task force board suggested in 2017 that the requirements of the particular curriculum should be discarded because they prevented first-generation, less privileged students from applying to the public universities of Kansas state.
Since 2015, enrollments have dropped from over 63,403 to 61,867 for full-time undergrads.
Daniel Archer, a high-up from Regents office stated that this radical step is taken keeping in mind the requirements and needs of first-generation college disciples. Since these students are a wide majority of the state’s young population hence this step is taken for their common good.
In compliance with the new regulation, course credit would no longer be a requirement but is still recommended by as the universities in Kansas state.
Since not all districts are equally privileged in Kansas state and cost a less-privileged student an arm and a leg getting these additional courses prepared from specialized teachers for the sake of college admissions. It is also observed that teachers for mathematics and science are not easily available as said by a Tallman who is high up in the Kansas Schools Association.
The new regulations will not apply to the students graduating in 2020 from high school.
