Posts published in April, 2012
Our New Papers On Broad Access Postsecondary Education
I have been working with several Stanford faculty and students to better understand the nature, operations, effectiveness, context, policy, politics, and organizational behavior of all froms of broad access postseondary -from beauty colleges to minimally selective universities. We have commissioned papers from scholars and practitioners all over the USA. Below are some links to our progress to date with Gates Foundation funds.
More info here: http://cepa.stanford.edu/ecology
Papers that we have commissioned from the project are headed to an edited volume. We have some modest funds to support a
convening of the authors sometime in 2012 to revise the papers and integrate the volume.
Papers are here: http://cepa.stanford.edu/ecology/conference-papers
Graduation Rate Increases Signifcantly After 4 Years
Approximately 58 percent of full-time, first-time students attending 4-year institutions in 2004 who were seeking a bachelor’s or equivalent degree completed a bachelor’s or equivalent degree within 6 years at the institution where they began their studies. The percentage of full-time, first-time students attending 4-year institutions in 2004 who were seeking a bachelor’s or equivalent degree who graduated in 4 years was higher at nonprofit institutions (52 percent) than at public (31 percent) or for-profit institutions (20 percent). Graduation rates of full-time, first-time students in 2006 increased from 23 percent to 37 percent at 2-year institutions and from 45 percent to 70 percent at less-than-2-year institutions when the time students were tracked was extended from within 100 percent of normal time to program completion within 200 percent of normal time.
