West, Polytechnic campuses plan academic villages

Academic villages are part of the student experience ASU President Michael Crow calls "immersion" education.

In a June 19 article in the Arizona Republic, writer Lesley Wright reports on the rise of ASU's West and Polytechnic campus academic villages.

She writes: "The villages will test research showing that students immersed in campus life engage more fully and graduate within four years. If successful, that would boost the university's graduation rate, which hovers just above 55 percent for a degree that takes 6 years to complete."

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