Thanks to five-year funding through a Post-Katrina Support Fund Initiative Primarily Education Subprogram award, Xavier University of Louisiana has restructured, streamlined, and improved the curricula for its General Biology courses. As a result of work undertaken through the P-KSFI grant, within three years student performance has shown dramatic improvement. General biology courses have seen steadily trending decreases in the percentage of failing and near-failing grades and corresponding increases in class grade point averages and course pass rates.
