Current higher education is characterized by a proliferation of distance education programs and by an increasing inclusion of nontraditional students. In this study we investigated whether and to what extent nontraditional students are particularly at risk for attrition (vs. graduating) from distance education programs. We conducted a secondary…

This study is a followup to a study that reported on the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for Boise State University freshmen and seniors. This study examined which of the many activities on the NSSE best predicted personal estimates of growth while at Boise State as well as perceived satisfaction with the university.…

Observes that the profession will always be in trouble; the best that can be done is to work to control the quality of that trouble. Growth has not always been equaled by ability to play the power game on the campus. Student personnel workers will confront all of these problems, solve some, bungle some, and cope with the rest. (Author)

Data from a student satisfaction survey were analyzed to determine those variables that best predict student satisfaction and to build a discriminant model of student satisfaction/dissatisfaction. The survey was administered to 2,634 undergraduate students enrolled in a regional university during the spring semester, 1993. Based on the findings of…

An interdisciplinary futures program was established as part of the core curriculum at Davis and Elkins College to prepare students for the variety of personal and social changes they are likely to experience during their lifetimes. Courses in the program are taught sequentially during each of the undergraduate years. At the freshmen, sophomore,…