Adult Student Retention - Lessons from a Community College

According to a 2011 report by the National Center for Education Statistics, the retention rate among full-time community-college students was only about 60 percent. Among part-time students, it fell to about 40 percent. And just 27 percent of all students graduated within three years of starting community college, according to "What Works in Student Retention," a 2010 report by ACT, the nonprofit education-assessment organization. The survey, of 305 colleges, reported that the leading reasons for attrition were a student's lack of readiness for college-level work, deficient study skills, and money problems.

Read full article, Online Doorway to Better Grades and Graduation Rates, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/3/12