RWS 1301

Difficulties Encountered
•Koral Gardea​
• Lizbeth Gallegos​
• Joe Escobedo
•Abraham Apodaca
(Lankford, K. 2016)
 (College Factual)

College Graduation
Rates
PSA
 • Graduation rates of higher education,
varies from university to university
depending on the amount of diverse, low-
income students a college has in their
student body.
Claim of the
PSA

(LA Johnson/NPR)
Evidence of PSA

• Susan choy

(Quan, N. 2016)
Evidence of
PSA
UTEP Percentages

(Mathew, R 2013)
Call to action

• Students can apply for financial aid at FAFSA.GOV

• There is a financial aid office in the Mike Loya
building room 204
• There is also a scholarship office in the Mike Loya
building room 202

(CSCC. EDU)
Difficulties
• 1. Picking one specific issue to present about
when there are so many things that affect
graduation rates.
• 2. Getting to understand how programs like
iMovie worked
• 3. Relating the topic locally, how did our issue
affected UTEP?
• 4.Putting all of the information gathered into
one cohesive video with limited time

(Bach, D. 2017)
Getting to understand how
new technologies work
• A. Introduction to Imovie
• B. Adapting to the way the program worked
• C. Using the correct tools

(Haslam, K 2018)
 (Bottorf, K. 2017)

• With over 5 main problems

that lower graduation rates
it was quite tough to come
to a team agreement on one
when all of us worked hard
on one specific factor.
• From mental health to the
acceptance rate of a
University.

Picking one specific issue to present

about when there are so many
things that affect graduation rates.
Relating the topic locally, how did our issue
affected UTEP?
• A. What made UTEP different
from other universities
• B. How diverse is UTEP
• C. How does this affect the
students

(WSCS 2008)
Utep.edu
 Putting all the information
gathered into one cohesive
video with limited time.

• There were multiple pieces of evidence that

we wanted to use.
• The amount of time given, 1min and 30 sec
would not have been enough.
• The video would have not been as
structured as we would like.

(Curvabezier, 2014)
 We know how income, and ethnicity can have
and affect in graduation rates.

The steps that people can take to help their

situation
• Conclusion
We are now more aware and want to educate
people on how they can help and get help

How Levack influenced this presentation

 Q&A

This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND.

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