Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
2014
Abstract/Description
Two pivotal and interconnected claims are addressed in this article. First, strategy precedes program effectiveness. Second, graduation rates and rankings are insufficient in any account of academic progress for African American students. In this article, graduation is regarded as the floor and not the ceiling, as it were. The ideal situation in the promotion of strategy is the alignment of high graduation rates or rankings with high graduation cumulative grade point averages. This strategic alignment is precisely what needs to be formulated in the first instance before making judgments about program development and/or operational effectiveness. The work of the Office of African American Affairs of the University of Virginia provides the context for observing trends in academic performance that illustrate the optimal alignment between high graduation rankings and correspondingly high grade point averages.
Publication Title
Peabody Journal of Education
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2014.913444
Publisher
Routledge
Scholarly Commons Citation
Maurice Apprey, Kimberley C. Bassett, Patrice Preston-Grimes, Dion W. Lewis & Beverly Wood (2014) Strategy Precedes Operational Effectiveness: Aligning High Graduation Rankings With Competitive Graduation Grade Point Averages, Peabody Journal of Education, 89:3, 305-317, DOI: 10.1080/0161956X.2014.913444
Additional Information
Dr. Beverly Wood was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.