Here are some academic strategies and initiatives that your private career college might adopt:

1. Incorporating academic excellence into your program must begin with the development of and adherence to a set of policies and procedures covering instructor qualifications and expectations, evaluation, and ongoing instructor development. While such changes may take time and effort to achieve, the results can be very rewarding.
2. Consider developing a Guaranteed Learning Policy and then inform your students of how it works. A word of caution: Guaranteed Learning does not mean a guaranteed passing grade. Not every student will succeed by completing their program of study, but every student is worthy of exceptional effort being made using every available means to ensure their successful learning of the course objectives. Any guaranteed learning policy should provide for extra help outside of regular class time and the possibility of retaking courses or units at no charge to students.
3. Consider developing a peer-to-peer or buddy system and incorporating it into your academic policy, in order to help those students who may be struggling.
4. Consider conducting an in-service seminar with teaching staff to help them identify potential learning barriers. The seminar should also provide intervention strategies to better equip educators to help students who are struggling to achieve desired learning outcomes.