College success courses continue to fight the legitimacy battle despite their proven track record of helping  students stay in college and graduate.

The arguments against success courses have remained the same over the last decade: they’re too expensive, they take away from other courses that students need to take in their program, students should come to college already knowing these skills.

If we are really interested in helping students persist and graduate, we need to look at what helps them and admit that success courses do this.  It’s time to stop putting these courses on trial.  They’ve already proven their worth.

Student success courses catch on, slowly, at community colleges | Inside Higher Ed.