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Cotnam, John D.; Ison, Sherrill – 1988
In spring 1987, a study was conducted at Monroe Community College (MCC) to determine the factors which influence attrition and retention, with particular focus on the reasons why students who have not graduated fail to return for succeeding semesters. Questionnaires were mailed to 452 former students, requesting information on students' rankings…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts
Download full textRedovich, Dennis W.; Rodriguez, Manuel S. – 1990
In July 1988, Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) initiated the Systematic Assessment of Leavers (SAL), a 2-year, 2-phase research activity to develop and implement a monitoring process to identify the personal, demographic, institutional, and environmental factors associated with leaving the college. The target populations of the study were…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropouts, Ethnic Groups
Von Wald, Stephen C. – 1992
In winter 1992, a survey was conducted by the Arrowhead Community College Region (Minnesota) to determine why nonreturning full-time students had failed to return to Arrowhead colleges. A questionnaire was mailed to all fall 1991 nonreturning students, followed by a second mailing two weeks later to all non-respondents. Of the 421 nonreturning…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Attendance, Community Colleges, Dropout Attitudes
Knight, William E. – 1991
In spring 1991, a study was conducted of non-returning students from the seven 2-year Regional Campuses (RC's) of Kent State University to identify demographic characteristics of such students, determine the reasons they did not continue their enrollment, and obtain their opinions regarding the academic and student services at the RC's. Of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Meltesen, C.; Lucas, J. – 1993
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) of 400 students who had attended WRHC in fall 1990 but failed to enroll in the subsequent term. The sample was divided into two groups: students who had completed fewer than 16 credit hours and those who had completed more than 16 but less than 48 credit hours. All of the stopouts were…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Characteristics
Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. Office of Institutional Research. – 1990
In 1990, a follow-up study was conducted of 1986-87 Johnson County Community College (JCCC) career program completers to assess their career and educational experiences over an extended period of time. Data from 128 returned mail surveys and 166 completed telephone interviews represented responses from 86.2% of the 462 students who left JCCC with…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Lash, Andrea A.; Kirkpatrick, Sandra L. – 1990
A basic assumption about school enrollment is that classrooms are stable over the school year. Patterns of student mobility, teacher strategies for student orientation, teacher perceptions of mobile students, the effects of student mobility on principals' decision making, and the relationship between principals' decisions and student population…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attendance, Decision Making, Educational Mobility
