A repeatedly low average at the state university means nothing. While at private universities, students performing poorly academically would have been declared ineligible to continue their studies, the UASD students are allowed to continue to enroll in courses at the university.
As reported in Diario Libre, more than 50,000 UASD students have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) below 60, which should make them academically ineligible. But UASD administrators apparently have not applied academic standards rules over the past 15 years for students failing to meet the minimum required GPA.
Magdalena Tiburcio and Fiordaliza Tejada, deputy director and employee of the Orientations Department at the central campus of the UASD, respectively, said that the university conducts 10 seminars each semester to help students who are academically underperforming. However, few take advantage of the seminars.
At the state university, UASD, where most students study free, the dropout rate among undergraduates is a staggering 47.6%, according to the National Statistics Office (ONE).
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Diario Libre
El Dia
26 February 2018
