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1/3 of college students may leave due to stress
Stress is the most common reason that a third of four-year college students considering dropping out for at least a semester this school year, according to a Lumina-Gallup poll. Forty-one percent of...
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At risk? The algorithm knows
Georgia State has boosted its graduation rate and eliminated the graduation gap for blacks, Latinos, first-generation students and low-income students. Among other things, the university uses...
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Getting to graduation
Western Kentucky University does better than expected at getting students to a degree. Western Kentucky University and University of Nevada, Las Vegas enroll similar students, but WKU enrollees are...
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? Unlikely, a new documentary about the college dropout crisis, spotlights five students in Akron, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles who are “fighting for a second chance at opportunity.” Filmmakers...
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Dropouts need not apply in Silicon Valley
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard. Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed. But don’t believe that high-tech companies care more about “the caliber of your code” than your college degree,...
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If they can’t read, they can’t do well in college
The new SAT, which demands sophisticated literacy skills — even in math — could “penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading,” educators told the New York Times. College instructors...
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When college is a foreign land
Ten years ago, students at a wealthy New York City private school, Fieldston, exchanged visits with students at a high-poverty Bronx public school three miles away. Johnny Rivera, a University Heights...
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Few graduate at ‘cafeteria colleges’
Easy come, easy go is the reality at community colleges, writes Meredith Kolodner in the Hechinger Report. Only 39 percent of degree-seeking students earn a credential within six years. A quarter of...
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‘Free’ college won’t raise graduation rates
College is too late, writes New York Times columnist Frank Bruni in response to President Obama’s call for free community college in the State of the Union speech. Subsidizing tuition won’t help if...
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First to college — but not to a degree
More low-income students are enrolling in college, but few go on to earn a degree, reports Liz Riggs in The Atlantic. Just 11 percent of low-income students who are the first in their family to attend...
View ArticleHow to prevent college dropouts
The best way to prevent college dropouts is to stop admitting unprepared students to four-year colleges and universities, argues Richard Vedder. People with “some college, no degree” earn little more...
View ArticleTennessee seeks college ‘stickiness’
In hopes of lowering high college dropout rates, Tennessee now links some college funding to graduation rates. State universities are trying to improve student “stickiness,” reports PBS NewsHour.
View ArticleCore courses can be gatekeepers
General education requirements can be gatekeepers, preventing community college students from earning a certificate or degree. Does everyone need college algebra?
View ArticleMore students quit college
College persistence rates — the percentage of students who enroll for a second year — are declining.
View ArticleUniversity wants to give 2-year degrees
Kent State University wants to award two-year degrees to students on their way to four-year degrees. Dropouts would have something to show for their time in college — and the university would get more...
View Article‘Skill builders’ don’t want degrees
Not all college students want a degree. “Skill builders” use low-cost community colleges to pick up expertise. Once they have what they need — often a raise — they depart, driving up the college’s...
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In the name of access, many community colleges set students up to fail by allowing late enrollment and letting unprepared students take college-level courses, an administrator writes.
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A black graduate asks: Why do so few make it?
Jamaal Abdul-alim earned a journalism degree at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He returned, writing for the Washington Monthly, to ask why only 19 percent of black students complete a degree...
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Roll-your-own higher ed
Young “heretics” with high-tech skills are Saying No to College, according to the New York Times. Inspired by billionaire role models, and empowered by online college courses, they consider themselves...
View ArticleCollege dropouts cite costs, poor preparation
Only 46 percent of U.S. students who start college complete a degree, according to the OECD. That’s the lowest rate in the industrialized world. College dropouts blame high costs, poor preparation and...
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