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Download full textRendon, Laura I. – 1980
After discussing several issues related to the disproportionately large number of minority students who initiate baccalaureate studies at two-year colleges, this paper urges minority community colleges to strengthen the college transfer function. The paper first summarizes the problems and characteristics of today's community college transfer…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Friedlander, Jack – 1981
Community college students are dropping courses at increasing rates at substantial costs to their institutions and themselves. Subsequently, numerous studies have been conducted to investigate this trend, the factors that influence it, and ways of reversing it. A recent study revealed that the most frequently cited reason for course withdrawal was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Courses, Financial Problems, School Holding Power
Jackson, Edison O.; McMillan, Robert L. – 1976
In order to determine the extent of attrition at Essex County College, all students registered for the fall semester of 1975 who did not return for the winter semester were identified and were surveyed by mail (n=2,000) to ascertain their reasons for not returning. A total of 546 questionnaires were returned for a response rate of 27.3%. Analysis…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Followup Studies
Sinclair Community Coll., Dayton, OH. Office of Institutional Planning and Research. – 1993
In fall 1992, a study was conducted at Sinclair Community College (SCC) in Dayton, Ohio, to determine factors contributing to former students' decisions not to return to the college. Two groups of former students were included the study: those who had last attended in fall 1990 and had thus been absent for 6 quarters, and those who had last…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Virginia State Dept. of Community Colleges, Richmond. – 1993
A study was conducted to measure the impact of the Virginia Community College System's (VCCS's) tuition increases on enrollment by randomly surveying students who had enrolled in the VCCS in fall 1991, but who had not enrolled for fall 1992. Some 76,191 of the 133,662 students enrolled in community colleges in fall 1991 did not re-enroll in fall…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
Axtell, Dayton; Coad, Alison – 1979
An in-class survey of a representative sample of 298 students was conducted by Merritt College in March 1979 to determine: (1) the approximate number of students who were considering withdrawal from college; (2) the approximate number who had given withdrawal serious consideration in the past; and (3) the factors which students felt were decisive…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Age, American Indians, Asian Americans
Slark, Julie – 1980
Utilizing the responses of 385 women to a district-wide community needs assessment conducted in March 1980, as well as information gathered from personal interviews with 400 women students, Santa Ana College (SAC) conducted a project to increase the awareness among women of SAC's programs and services and to determine: (1) women's degree of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students, Community Attitudes
