A Matter of Degrees story by Emily Corwin
Excerpt:
By the mid-April at Keene State College, 13 students remained in professor Kristen Porter-Utley’s freshman biology lecture. Two had dropped out. Keene State's Dean of Sciences and Social Sciences, Gordon Leversee, says this is not unusual in science classes around the country. Here, science students are 2 to 3 times more likely to get a D, an F, to withdraw, or receive an incomplete than students in other classes.