Learning techniques to improve college student retention
The changes in our economy and the overall changes to the world we live in over the last twenty years have clearly called for modifications in the abilities and educational requirements of our college graduates in this country. With these new demands, comes the need to find innovative ways to achieve improved college student retention. [...]
Innovative college student retention techniques
In past years, colleges have suffered from increased rates of students dropping-out or not returning to school. With the overall affect being long term funding difficulties in addition to the cost of lost students, colleges are searching for innovative ways to improve their college student retention rates. The first step is to learn why some [...]
Innovative college student retention techniques
In past years, colleges have suffered from increased rates of students dropping-out or not returning to school. With the overall affect being long term funding difficulties in addition to the cost of lost students, colleges are searching for innovative ways to improve their college student retention rates. The first step is to learn why some [...]
Should Colleges Change Student Enrollment policies?
Individual institutions engaged in academic market research usually study student enrollment behavior in this final phase (Litten et al. 1983). Analysis of data collected from admitted student questionnaires on student characteristics and ratings of the characteristics of a college and its competitors allows a college to identify its competitors, assess its image, determine its market [...]
How do Colleges respond to Student Enrollment Chalenges?
Faced with prospects of reduced enrollments, budget deficits, retrenchment, and institutional closings, many administrators paid more attention to enrollment maintenance, became more responsive to market interests and more aware of the increasingly competitive nature of student recruitment, and began to engage in market-oriented activities intended to attract students. Each year’s students became more like academic [...]
Understanding Student Enrollment Behavior
In the 1970s, projections clearly indicated that the traditional college student cohort of 18 to 21 year olds would fall by 25 percent between the late 1970s and the early 1990s (WICHE 1988). Colleges unhappily watched the number of traditional college-level jobs per college graduate decrease. Potential students became consumers and flexed their newfound marketplace [...]