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Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2017
This report is for students who wish to be full-time, but because of competing demands in their lives, attend part-time. Community colleges have long known that full-time students are more likely to complete college than are their part-time peers. In fact, a number of new completion efforts focus on full-time attendance throughout college.…
Descriptors: Full Time Students, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Learner Engagement
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Crisp, Gloria – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: Student utilization of complex enrollment patterns has been identified as a significant recent development in higher education. Nearly a dozen different multi-institutional attendance patterns have been identified, including co-enrollment. Co-enrollment is simultaneous enrollment at two or more colleges or universities during…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Attendance Patterns
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Vasquez Urias, Marissa; Wood, J. Luke – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate Black male graduation rates in public two-year, degree-granting institutions. Specifically, the researchers were interested in determining the influence (if any) of select institutional characteristics (e.g., attendance intensity, degree of urbanization, geographic region, institutional size) on…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Graduation Rate, Two Year College Students
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Curtin, Jenny; Hurwitch, Bill; Olson, Tom – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
An early warning system is a data-based tool that helps predict which students are on the right path towards eventual graduation or other grade-appropriate goals. Through such systems, stakeholders at the school and district levels can view data from a wide range of perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of student data. This "Statewide…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Indicators, Predictor Variables, At Risk Students
Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2012
Community colleges across the country have created innovative, data-informed programs that are models for educating underprepared students, engaging traditionally underserved students, and helping students from all backgrounds succeed. However, because most of these programs have limited scope, the field now has pockets of success rather than…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Community Colleges, Focus Groups
Bailey, Thomas; Calcagno, Juan Carlos; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy; Kienzl, Gregory – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2005
Policymakers, educators, and researchers recognize the importance of community colleges as open door institutions that provide a wide range of students with access to college. At the same time, competing demands for the state funds that would support community colleges have resulted in reduced public allocations and higher student tuition fees.…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy, Community Colleges
Gold, Ben K. – 1981
In fall 1981, a study was conducted of the 386 Los Angeles City College (LACC) students who transferred to the California State University at Los Angeles (CSULA) in fall 1977. The study, which examined student persistence through the third year after transfer and determined graduation rates, was a follow-up to an earlier study of student…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, College Graduates, College Transfer Students
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Clagett, Craig A. – 1990
Determining "what percentage of community college students transfer" requires clarification of such questions as which students should be included in the calculation, how many hours should the student earn at the community college before transferring, and how long should the students be followed. At Prince George's Community College, transfer…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), Attendance Patterns, College Credits
Knight, William E. – 1990
In order to determine the length of time taken by graduates of Kent State University's Regional Campuses (RC) to obtain an Associate Degree, master records were analyzed for 91% (N=527) of the students who graduated in May 1990. The study considered the relationship between time to associate degree and such factors as campus attended, major,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Graduates
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Morris, Cathy; Losak, John – 1986
Females, minorities, and older students are entering higher education at an increasing rate. The influx of these "nontraditional" students has led to quite different enrollment patterns, in which stopping out of college and part-time enrollment are common. Most students have objectives that are not synonymous with earning a baccalaureate degree…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns