Three Years after Graduation: Survey of 1990-91 Graduates and Certificate Holders.

Autor/in	Adams, Judith
Institution	Macomb Community Coll., Warren, MI. Dept. of Research and Evaluation.
Titel	Three Years after Graduation: Survey of 1990-91 Graduates and Certificate Holders.
Quelle	(1993), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Transfer Students; Community Colleges; Education Work Relationship; Followup Studies; Graduate Surveys; Outcomes of Education; Participant Satisfaction; Salaries; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Two Year College Students; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Community college; Community College; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	As part of a program of graduate follow-up studies, Macomb Community College (MCC), in Michigan, regularly conducts surveys of graduates or certificate earners 1, 3, and 5 years after their departure from the college. In September 1993, surveys were sent to 2,846 alumni from the class of 1990-91 requesting information on graduate characteristics, current employment/educational status, salary information, and perceptions of MCC. Study findings, based on responses from 1,198 former students, included the following: (1) 93% of the respondents were white and 60% were female; (2) 39.2% of the respondents indicated that their primary reason for attending MCC had been to prepare for a job, while 37% indicated that they attended to earn credit for transfer; (3) 77.8% of respondents were employed, 6.2% were unemployed, and 14.6% were full-time students; (4) of the employed respondents, 59.9% indicated that their job was directly related to their education at MCC and over half rated themselves as satisfied or very satisfied with their work; (5) the median monthly salary reported by employed graduates was between $2,000 and $2,499; (6) just over 10% of all the respondents indicated that they had earned Bachelor's or Master's Degrees; (7) respondents who had completed the General Studies or the Associate of Arts programs were most likely to earn Bachelor's degrees; and (8) 94% of the respondents indicated that they would recommend the courses they completed at MCC to others. The survey instrument is appended. (KP)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC