{"id":82196,"date":"2022-08-10T20:31:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T00:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82196"},"modified":"2022-08-10T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T00:41:51","slug":"average-student-not-on-track-to-graduate-in-5-years-greenberg-other-items-re-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/08\/10\/average-student-not-on-track-to-graduate-in-5-years-greenberg-other-items-re-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Average Student Not on Track to Graduate in 5 Years&#8221; [Greenberg] + other items re: higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2022\/08\/02\/average-student-not-track-graduate-5-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Average Student Not on Track to Graduate in 5 Years<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Susan H. Greenberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The average full-time college student doesn\u2019t even attempt to take enough credits to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree within five years, according to a new\u00a0Postsecondary Data Partnership Insights report\u00a0by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The report evaluated the credit-completion ratio\u2014the ratio of credits earned to those attempted\u2014and the credit-accumulation rate of more than 900,000 first-time students at 342 postsecondary institutions during the 2019\u201320 school year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/college-students-average-less-than-22-credits-in-their-first-year-too-few\/628697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>College students average less than 22 credits in their first year, too few to graduate on time<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Rick Seltzer<\/p>\n<p><em>(Excerpt from <strong>Dive Brief<\/strong>)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barely over half of a group of first-time, full-time students \u2014 51% \u2014 earned 24 or more credits in their first year of college, meaning most aren\u2019t on track to graduate in four or even five years, according to research released Tuesday by the National Student Clearinghouse.<\/li>\n<li>The average full-time student took classes worth under 27 credit hours and earned fewer than 22. Just 28% of students earned 30 hours of credit or more in their first year, which is the annual pace typically required to graduate on time from four-year bachelor\u2019s programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2022-08-03-more-high-school-students-are-taking-college-classes-but-not-everyone-gets-the-chance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More High School Students Are Taking College Classes. But Not Everyone Gets the Chance.<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Rebecca Koenig<br \/>\n<em>Can better pathways help schools, colleges and students avoid &#8220;random acts of dual enrollment\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dual-enrollment programs help nearly 1.4 million high school students take college courses each year. It\u2019s an opportunity that offers lots of proven benefits, like enabling more people to\u00a0graduate from college, saving families money on higher education and helping community colleges attract more students during\u00a0an era of falling enrollments. It\u2019s even popular across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But as dual enrollment grows across the country, access to the option is not distributed equally, according to a new report produced by nearly two dozen higher ed researchers and experts, with funding from the Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/03\/1115380528\/college-is-increasingly-out-of-reach-for-many-students-what-went-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>College is increasingly out of reach for many students. What went wrong?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from npr.org by Terry Gross; with thanks to EdSurge.com for this resource<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Journalist Will Bunch says instead of\u00a0opening the door to a better life, college leaves many students deep in debt and unable to find well-paying jobs. His new book is<em>\u00a0After the Ivory Tower Falls.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccdaily.com\/2022\/08\/whats-working-in-community-college-baccalaureate-degree-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What\u2019s working in community college baccalaureate degree programs<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from ccdaily.com by Tabitha Whissemore<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A growing number of community colleges are offering baccalaureate degree programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to a\u00a0national inventory\u00a0published in 2021 by the\u00a0Community College Baccalaureate Association\u00a0(CCBA) and New America, there are nearly 570 community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs in the United States, operating at 148 community and technical colleges across 25 states. Most of the programs focus on healthcare or business, though newer programs also are being offered in computer and information sciences, and other STEM fields, as well as education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/its-time-to-end-higher-eds-gimmicky-sales-tactics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>It\u2019s Time to End Higher Ed\u2019s Gimmicky Sales Tactics<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Barmak Nassirian<br \/>\n<em>Teaming up with online program managers comes at a steep reputational cost.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u00a0Initially trumpeted as an innovative model to expand access and drive down costs, the programs have seen a spate of\u00a0recent\u00a0media\u00a0stories\u00a0that paints a far less favorable picture: College-OPM partnerships are Faustian bargains that drive up tuition costs and reduce educational quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How did it come to this?<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Though much of what Barmak is saying may be true, the gimmicks were going on long before OPM\u2019s came into play. We should stop blaming everything on OPMs, or on the pandemic, or on online learning, or on this or that technology. The causes of higher education\u2019s current issues go back a long way &#8212; such as approving standard\/annual cost increases over the last several decades.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average Student Not on Track to Graduate in 5 Years &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Susan H. Greenberg Excerpt: The average full-time college student doesn\u2019t even attempt to take enough credits to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree within five years, according to a new\u00a0Postsecondary Data Partnership Insights report\u00a0by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. 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