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Complete College America, 2016
Higher education often operates under old rules -- rules that continue despite an increasingly diverse student population and improved understanding of human behavior and choice. Under these old rules, fewer than half of students graduate on time, if at all, and troubling equity gaps exist based on income, race, and ethnicity. It is time for new…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Graduation, College Credits
Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2009
This issue of "The Progress of Education Reform" will look at recent research on transfer and articulation in light of the new movement to increase degree attainment by addressing the following three questions: (1) Do articulation agreements ease the transfer process and lead to degree attainment; (2) what are the factors that facilitate…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Educational Change, Transfer Students, College Transfer Students
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1998
This report responds to a congressional request to assess the availability of information on the extent to which the increasing burden of student debt affects: (1) students' choices about whether and where to enroll in college and whether or how much to borrow; (2) the length of time it takes to earn the baccalaureate degree and student choices…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Choice, College Students, Debt (Financial)
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1994
This report examines baccalaureate student graduation, time-to-degree, and retention at Illinois state universities and presents data on these issues in 21 tables. The analysis notes that a little more than half of all public university first-time freshmen earn a bachelor's degree and that less than 3 percent of freshmen complete their degrees in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bachelors Degrees, Black Students, College Graduates
New Jersey State Commission on Higher Education. – 1998
This report on outcomes in New Jersey's public colleges and universities has the following key findings: (1) total undergraduate enrollment decreased by approximately 15,000 students between 1992 and 1997 as a result of declining part-time enrollment and despite an increase of 8,000 in full-time undergraduate enrollment during the same period; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, College Students
DesJardins, Stephen L.; Moye, Melinda J. – 2000
This study describes the use of event history modeling as a tool for understanding student departure from college. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics High School and Beyond (HS&B)/Sophomore Cohort longitudinal study a detailed history of individual students' college careers was constructed using a regression-like…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attrition (Research Studies), College Students, Dropout Research