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Most withdrawn classes over past four semesters
26.5
40.4
25.5 22.6
22.1
21.7 PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED
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PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED
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MUS 1740
PHYS 1208
PHYS 1201
BIOL 4093
CHEM 2262
CSC 3102
FALL 2013
26.7
26.3
26.2
25.0
ME 3133
CHEM 2261
EE 3950
ARCH 3006
SPRING 2014
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47.2
37.6
29.0 24.4
CSC 1254
CHE 2171
ARTH 1440
ME 3834
FALL 2014
23.5
ME 2334
35.9
PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED
PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED
Data provided by the Office of Budget and Planning shows the classes with the greatest percentages of student withdrawals in the past four semesters. The data represents the percentage of students enrolled in the class who withdrew from the courses after the final date to add or drop a course without a withdrawal, or W, listed on their transcripts. Because each class is a different size, the percentages represent the ratio of students who withdrew to the number of students first enrolled in the class. According to the LSU W Grade Policy, students are allowed to withdraw from three courses when they have less than 60 credit hours and are allowed another three Ws when they are between 60 and 119 hours. After 119 credit hours, students are allowed one W. The Ws do not rollover. Withdrawals listed on transcripts do not affect students’ overall grade point average.
54.4
ME 2334
ECON 4720
27.2
26.9
PETE 2032
EE 3150
24.1
CE 2460
SPRING 2015 Charts are not to scale
STATE
Law professor Chris Tyson seeks Secretary of State office BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR In the late ‘80s, Chris Tyson, a young LSU Laboratory School student, could be found roaming the halls of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, though he was often kicked out and sent back to the high school campus. In the span of more than
30 years, Tyson has come full circle, gracing the doors of the Law Center as a professor rather than a wandering student and expanding his career beyond the LSU campus into a campaign for Louisiana Secretary of State this fall. He described the position as the intersection of democracy, economy and culture, touting
his past involvement in leader- architecture, master’s degree in ship roles for small public policy and a Jubusiness ventures, conris Doctor, Tyson came tributions to political back to Louisiana in campaigns and mentorresponse to Hurricane ship programs as his Katrina’s devastaqualifications. tion, finding work with After spending 12 Sen. Mary Landrieu’s Elections 2015: Sec. ofRACE State 2015 MAYORAL years away from his office in Washinghome state in pursuit ton D.C. and later reof an undergraduate degree in turning to the state as an LSU
law professor. “I can’t think of a more powerful experience to draw you back than playing some bit part in the post-Katrina process,” he said. “It really emboldened my desire to come back to Louisiana.” Tyson joined Landrieu’s
see SECRETARY, page 4