Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State University is in a better place financially compared to seven years ago when it was forced to cut $30.8 million from its spending budget, but trustees say the university has not met all of its goals, particularly in retaining students through graduation.
In the 2024-2026 Campus Completion Plan, a document required by the state to outline a university’s goals, school administrators said some goals set in 2020 and 2022 have not been met.
The university set a goal to increase new student rates of retention to 75% and graduation rates to 54% by the 2025-2026 school year by incrementally increasing each rate by at least 2% each year since fall 2020.
The university has increased the rates of both retention and recruitment, but not by 2% each year.
WSU’s retention rate has been 64% for the entering classes of fall 2021 and fall 2022. Graduation rates rose from 44% to 46%, but the graduation goal of 54% is unlikely to be met by the 2025-2026 school year.
