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(Continued from page 9) Developmental Education available continues to grow, expanding our opportunities to engage our students and enhance learning for all of us. These tools are all part of the social networking that our students use and know, so these tools allow us to meet the students on their own turf. Perhaps you already have your own favorite tools to share those, or you would like to see a workshop on a particu- By: Kevin M. David, Ph.D., Director of Planning and Institutional Research and Margaret E. Lee, Th.D., Dean of Developmental Education lar facet of the Web 2.0 tools. We can easily meet those requests! and Student Success: TCC and Complete College America *URLs for the tools listed: How effective is developmental education in helping under- JogtheWeb: www.jogtheweb.com, InstaGrok: www.instagrok.com, prepared college students earn a certificate or degree? This question Themeefy: www.themeefy.com, Linoit: http://en.linoit.com, Wordle: www.wordle.net, Glogster: www.glogster.com WAC!WAC! Writing Across the College/ Writing Across The Curriculum At Southeast Campus http://www.tulsacc.edu/about-tcc/celt/teaching-andlearning/wacwac is receiving close scrutiny at TCC and throughout the nation. Complete College America (CCA) has recently published two reports that sound a warning for all who are concerned about higher education. CCA has declared that remediation is “higher education’s bridge to nowhere.” They identify four “dropout exit ramps” in higher education: “too many students start in remediation, remediation doesn’t work, too few complete gateway courses, and too few graduate.” (CCA, Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge to Nowhere). The Office of Developmental Education and the Office of Planning and Institutional Research (P&IR) recently W