Conversation with Purdue's president for February

By Kristin Malavenda • Mar 3, 2014

Credit Purdue University

Purdue president Mitch Daniels says the university’s on-time completion rate is “unacceptable.”

A recent report by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education indicates that only about 30-percent of students at the state‘s four-year public colleges and universities finish school within four years.

At Purdue 37-percent of non-transferring students seeking bachelor’s degrees graduate within four years at the West Lafayette campus.

Daniels says the university has a number of programs in place to help more students finish on-time.

He says the university is also exploring the possibility that some degrees could be completed in less than four years in order to save students time and money.

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WBAA's Kristin Malavenda talks to Purdue president Mitch Daniels about a recent $5-million anonymous gift to the university, on-time completion rates and what the university is doing to improve them, the addition of a faculty member to the Board of Trustees academic affairs committee, and the awarding of a posthumous degree to shooting victim Andrew Boldt.