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ERIC Number: ED151039
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1978-Mar
Pages: 15
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Persistence in the Community College System After Six Semesters, Fall 1974 Entering Students. Student Flow Project, Report No. 37.
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System.
As part of a continuing student flow study in Hawaii community colleges, the persistence of 9,171 fall 1974 entering students after six semesters was analyzed to ascertain the degree to which they persisted at campuses other than the one of entry. Characteristics studied included sex, age, high school background, marital status, entry status, educational objective, program during last semester of attendance, full- or part-time status, cumulative grade point average, cumulative credit-completion ratio, change vs. no change of campus, change vs. no change of major, and campus of last enrollment. Data indicated that persistence patterns viewed from the perspective of the overall community college system differed somewhat from those viewed by campus of entry--decreasing the non-persister category from 2,617 to 2,296 (29 to 25%), decreasing the moderate persister category from 3,567 to 3,366 (39 to 37%), increasing the stop-out category from 824 to 1,082 (9 to 12%), and increasing the extreme persister category from 944 to 1,111 (10 to 12%), the latter indicating that approximately one in eight students attended one or more colleges for six consecutive semesters without completing a degree. Higher proportions of students who changed campuses (21%) or majors (21%) were found to be extreme persisters compared to those who did not. (TR)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System.
Identifiers - Location: Hawaii
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