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Download full textTennessee Board of Regents - The College System of Tennessee, 2021
Over the past decade, 113,000 adults with some college but no degree (SCND) have reconnected with higher education at Tennessee community colleges. Most of these students reconnected at community colleges after attending elsewhere, and many had made substantial progress toward a credential before stopping out. However, after reconnecting, fewer…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Reentry Students, Community College Students, Success
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2020
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Learner Engagement, Academic Advising, Educational Trends
Johnson, Nate; Bell, Alli – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2014
An estimated 46 million adults have some college education but have not completed their degrees. For many, especially those who have accumulated several years' worth of credits, the inability to finish college remains a frustration. If the United States is to achieve its ambitious education attainment goals, many more adults with such experience…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Educational Attainment, Higher Education, Academic Persistence
Direct linkFinnie, Ross; Qiu, Theresa – Statistics Canada, 2009
This report provides new and unique empirical evidence on postsecondary education pathways in Atlantic Canada based on the data from the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS). This study covers postsecondary students in public institutions at all levels of study--college, bachelor's, master's, Ph.D. and first professional degrees--with…
Descriptors: Student Records, Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries, Student Mobility
Mery, Pamela M. – 2001
This survey analyzes the characteristics of students who dropped all of their classes at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) before the college's census date. The survey finds that students who drop all of their classes are similar to students who remain enrolled, yet tend to be older, to hold a college-level degree, and to hold at least one…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Dropouts, Adult Students, Attendance
Garcia, Rodolfo Z.; Thompson, Vinton – 1990
In 1988, a retrospective study was conducted at the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) of the enrollment patterns of 1,521 students who graduated from the district in spring 1987. The study was designed to determine the length of time it took a sample of CCC graduates to receive a two-year degree. Data for the study were drawn from computerized and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance
Dillon, Paul H. – 1990
In 1990, a study was conducted of 1,912 students receiving associate in arts or associate in science degrees the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) in spring 1989 to determine the length of time taken to graduate. Data for the study were gathered from spring 1989 graduates' district transcript records which contained enrollment dates…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance
