"Most impressing was the way that they got on offence about helping students were who were in trouble," he says. They designed a model called the freshman success team, where teachers would meet across departments to discuss student performance. Four years later, exactly as the freshman on track metric predicted, they start gradua. And you passed forward to two thousand 18 they had taken the graduation rate from 52 % to 78%. I mean, just, it's hard to overstate the magnitude of that achievement.