Student Retention Survey: Why Students Did Not Return, Spring Semester 1994.

Autor/in	Lee, Marcia M.
Institution	Westchester Community Coll., Valhalla, NY. Office of Institutional Research.
Titel	Student Retention Survey: Why Students Did Not Return, Spring Semester 1994.
Quelle	(1996), (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Dropout Attitudes; Dropout Characteristics; Dropouts; Enrollment Influences; School Holding Power; Stopouts; Student Attrition; Student Educational Objectives; Success; Two Year College Students; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Ausstieg; Schülerbeurlaubung; Erfolg
Abstract	In spring 1995, Westchester Community College (WCC), in New York, surveyed all 1,208 students who attended WCC for the first time in fall 1993 but did not return the following spring semester to determine their reasons for not returning. Study findings, based on an analysis of responses from 241 (20%) of the students and demographic characteristics from student files, included the following: (1) 75.5% of the 1,208 students who did not return had attended part-time, while only 56.2% of the first-time students in fall 1993 attended part-time; (2) non-returning students were 46.6% female and 62.1% White, roughly equal to their percentages among first-time students in fall 1993; (3) 34.9% of the respondents indicated that they had attended WCC for personal interest, 17% to prepare for a career change, 15.4% to transfer to a four-year college, another 15.4% to improve job skills, and 8.7% to prepare for a first career; (4) 53.5% of the respondents indicated that they had achieved their objective by the time they left WCC; (5) 14.1% indicated that they had not intended to return for spring semester when they enrolled, 12.9% that they did not return because they had to work, and 10.8% that they chose to enroll in another college; and (6) 36.5% indicated that they planned to return in the coming year or sometime, while 25.1% were undecided and 34.4% did not plan to return. (BCY)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC