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Download full textBradley, A. Paul, Jr.; Lehmann, Timothy – 1975
Attrition at Empire State College (ECS) is calculated in terms of three types of counts: temporal, activity, and degree progress. The strategy for assessing attrition using these three quantitative techniques is discussed as are qualitative phone interviews. The attrition rate in terms of a temporal count was 28 percent. Phone interviews with 93…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, Dropout Attitudes
New York State Temporary Commission to Study the Causes of Campus Unrest, Albany. – 1972
The Governor and the 1971 New York State Legislature charged the Temporary Commission to Study the Causes of Campus Unrest with the study of the colleges and secondary school system in a continuing effort to ascertain the causes of unrest where it exists, and reasons for lack of unrest where it does not exist. It was found that during academic…
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Dissent, Higher Education
Bowen, Jeffrey M.; Lipkowitz, Debra L. – 1985
Students drop out of school for a wide variety of reasons. Programs to discourage dropping out must therefore accommodate the actual needs of individual students rather than aim at the assumed needs of the "typical dropout." This document reviews school policies and programs that could affect dropout tendencies positively. Among these…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
