Texas's current definition of continuous enrollment does not sufficiently capture the benefit of stable educational experiences. Broadly, Texas defines continuous enrollment as remaining in the same school district for several years. Its definition does not take into consideration changing schools within districts or students who leave and return…

In this study, we develop and implement a text messaging re-enrollment campaign to encourage former community college students to return to college. Former students are randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups that either receives information to simplify the re-enrollment process or receives both information and a one-course tuition…

This study examined whether the use of trend analysis combined with analysis of persistence variables can be used to establish a model to forecast the first-year persistence of college freshmen. A linear model was created using data on 2,603 first-time freshmen at a moderate-sized comprehensive university from fall 1989 through fall 1993. The…