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ERIC Number: ED305104
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1989-Feb
Pages: 41
Abstractor: N/A
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First Time Students, Fall 1984. Catonsville Community College.
Linksz, Donna H.
In spring 1988, Catonsville Community College (CCC) participated in a statewide survey of students who first enrolled in a Maryland community college in fall 1984. Questionnaires were mailed to 3,136 CCC students, requesting information on demographics, reasons for attending CCC, levels of satisfaction with their community college experience, and employment and transfer data. Study findings, based on an 18.6% response rate, included the following: (1) survey respondents generally had taken more credits, had higher grade point averages, and were more likely to be degree seekers, female, and white than the CCC student body as a whole; (2) 15% of the CCC survey respondents, 6.2% of all students who entered CCC in 1984, and 6% of all students who entered a Maryland community college in 1984 had received an associate degree by spring 1988; (3) 77% of the survey respondents were employed at the time of the survey, with 59% working in a job related to their CCC major; (4) 37% of the respondents had transferred to another college or university, with 11% of the transfer students having earned a bachelor's degree; and (5) the most highly rated aspect of CCC was the overall quality of instruction, which was rated as "good" or "very good" by 86% of the respondents. Responses to open-ended questions are appended. (AAC)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Catonsville Community Coll., MD.
Identifiers - Location: Maryland
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