Community colleges serve a vital role within the American education system and as the number of nontraditional students increase, further research is warranted in understanding how these particular students can be retained. Nontraditional student enrollment is highest at community colleges; however, they have the lowest rates in being retained.…

Focuses on the relationship between work attitudes, values, and background variables. Swedish studies of young people indicate that internal or postmaterialistic values as well as intrinsic work goals are important. Intrinsic work goals are ranked higher than economic work goals by groups, especially girls, attending theoretical high school…