• Archive for November, 2011

    Low Success Rates

    by  • November 15, 2011 • College • 0 Comments

    It pained me to read the Houston Chronicle article on Texas’ community colleges (10/20/11) by Jeannie Kever titled, “Low Success Rates an Annual Disaster.” The community college systems were never intended to serve 60% of Texas’ college students, but here we have it. Changes in the economy, the lack of manufacturing jobs, and the...

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    Real Data

    by  • November 1, 2011 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    If only 50% of college students get a Bachelor’s degree in this country, then it becomes important to know the characteristics of those who finish. An article published in Scientific American Mind, Why We Quit by Yvonne Raley, (August/September 2007), describes three contributing factors. 1) There is a good fit between the student and...

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