UT recognized for increase in graduation rates, award finalist

UT has been recognized as having one of the nation’s leading initiatives to improve student graduation rates after increasing degree completion by 10 percent over four years. The University is a finalist for the 2017 Project Degree Completion Award, which is awarded by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities to institutions who work to improve student success rates. Senior vice provost David Laude said hundreds of people across the University have worked together in the past five years to help students graduate on time.