WSU official on efforts to improve graduation rates among Black students

For 12 years, Wayne State University has seen a steady increase in the number of Black student graduates. University officials attribute that success to support programs put in place to improve retention and graduation rates, particularly for low-income and minority students. But in 2023, the six-year graduation rate for Black students at WSU fell eight percentage points — roughly 20%. Today on Created Equal, we talk with Dr. Darryl Gardner, a vice provost who oversees the university’s efforts to increase student success, about what happened, and what the university is doing about it. 

Hosted by Stephen Henderson, Created Equal is about the promise of opportunity and the challenge of inequality from the city that built America — Detroit.