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Larkin, Paul G. – 1974
The way students move through a community college once they have enrolled has crucial implications for policy-making and administration, but has been given inadequate attention by researchers. A model of student flow is described in terms of progress toward graduation, based on records of sources of students, freshmen and sophomore flows, and…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, Enrollment
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Bender, Louis W. – Community College Review, 1991
Describes a 1990 study of accredited degree-granting private for-profit institutions, including 48 baccalaureate-granting and 231 associate-degree-granting proprietary schools, regarding enrollments, programs, degrees awarded, accreditation, and plans among 2-year schools for granting baccalaureates. Reviews state studies of transfer among…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
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Institutional and Program Planning Research Brief, 1997
In 1997, Florida's St. Petersburg Junior College (SPJC) conducted a study to determine whether students who needed remediation completed their degree programs and, if so, the time that they took to complete their program. The academic records of students who graduated in summer 1995, fall 1995, and spring 1996 were analyzed, with findings compared…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Graduates, College Outcomes Assessment
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Office of Institutional Research and Analysis. – 1980
A study was conducted to determine the major characteristics of those students who graduated from the seven Hawaii community colleges during fiscal year (FY) 1980. The study revealed that a total of 2,183 students graduated between July 1979 and June 1980, representing an 8% decrease over the previous year. Factors contributing to this decline…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Graduates, Community Colleges
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; And Others – 1987
A study was conducted at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) to determine the extent to which the college's Associate in Arts (AA) degree graduates possessed the characteristics of "nontraditional" students (e.g., older, employed, married, or attending on a part-time or stopout basis). A random sample of 400 AA graduates was drawn from the 2,829…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System. – 1978
As part of a longitudinal study of fall 1975 entering students at Hawaii community colleges, this report focuses on two student groups: those who graduated during 1975-76 and those who graduated during 1976-77. Student characteristics were significantly different between groups. There were greater proportions of female than male graduates for both…
Descriptors: Age, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges
West, Jerry – 1989
Data from the postsecondary transcripts of high school seniors included in the High School and Beyond (HS&B) study of the class of 1980 and the National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the Senior Class of 1972 were analyzed to investigate the participation of students in two-year postsecondary programs. The analyses focused mainly on the…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, College Graduates
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
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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
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
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Stankovich, Mary Jo; And Others – 1979
The transcripts of the 115 Macomb Community College (MCC) students who graduated in 1978 with an Associate of General Studies degree were analyzed to determine data frequency counts, percentage distributions, and descriptive measurements which profiled the graduates in terms of demography, educational background, veteran status, attendance…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Graduates
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
Data are presented on high school completion and college attendance trends for whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians. Also shown are minority group college enrollment trends; degrees earned by minority group; and enrollment (undergraduate, graduate, full- and part-time) by race at about 3,400 colleges and universities, organized…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2008
There is a strong and growing argument for higher educational attainment in the United States. The jobs that are expected to support the economy in the coming years will depend on a skilled workforce that is able to learn and adapt quickly to new challenges. However, demographic patterns demonstrate that relying on the traditional K-16 pipeline to…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Distance Education, State Action, Educational Attainment