Editorial: NMSU budget rightly incentivizes graduation - Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board

New Mexico State University has taken a page from UNM’s last budget, financing faculty pay raises by linking students’ wallets to full course loads that will get them graduated in four years. That’s smart – graduating students on time should be the real bottom line of every university. UNM set that tone last April, when it scrapped the block model where students taking 12 to 18 credit hours a semester were considered full time and paid a set amount in tuition and fees. It moved to a system in which students taking fewer than 15 credit hours paid a higher rate than those taking 15 hours or more, in great part because just 15 percent of UNM students were graduating in four years and 46 percent in six. http://www.abqjournal.com/380994