University System of Georgia Identifies Corequisite Models with Maximum Benefit for Dismantling Systemic Inequalities in Higher Education
As an original member of the Complete College America Alliance of States, the University System of Georgia (USG) has taken an approach known as corequisite support. In the corequisite model, students immediately enroll in credit-bearing courses while receiving the extra support they need to complete gateway college-level courses. Since USG implemented the corequisite approach statewide in 2018 and 2019, it has more than tripled the percentage of students who have successfully completed gateway math courses and significantly increased the percentage who have completed gateway English courses. Most notable is the increase in success for Black and Latinx students who pass their college-level math and English courses near or above the pass rate for all students, effectively closing gaps that existed prior to the adoption of corequisite support.
To determine which coreq model resulted in the maximum benefit for students, USG compared the actual success rate for each combination to the expected success rate. While students in all corequisite models succeeded at higher rates than they did in traditional prerequisite remediation, some combinations benefited students more than others. Learn more about the USG research looking at the impacts of coreq models including:
- Same instructor, college-level and corequisite classes
- Different instructor, college-level and corequisite classes
- Number of corequisite hours