Early Childhood at Granite State

Faculty members at Granite State College want students to succeed.

I bet you didn't know that. Maybe you never thought about that before.

In some New Hampshire colleges, and in fact colleges throughout the United States, faculty members expect students to fail. They create impossible tests, assume that most of the class will fail, then scale the test on a bell curve. This creates frustration and fear in students. But at Granite State College this is not the case. Yesterday a student went to a math professor concerned about a test he had taken and not done well on. The professor immediately said, "you may take the test over if you like." The student persisted and said he needed to take the test out of the classroom, and again the professor agreed. This is encouraging success rather than failure.

As a group, faculty in all disciplines at Granite State want students to be successful. After all, you will be heading out into the working world and your understanding of the work you have done in college should help you to be prepared for your career goals. Your success matters to the faculty at Granite State.