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Article: Unmasking the effects of student engagement on first-year college grades and persistence.(Report)
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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A college degree has replaced the high school diploma as a mainstay for economic self-sufficiency and responsible citizenship. In addition, earning a bachelor's degree is linked to long-term cognitive, social, and economic benefits to individuals--benefits that are passed onto future generations, enhancing the quality of life of the families of college-educated persons, the communities in which they live, and the larger society.
Unfortunately, too many students who begin college leave before completing degrees. Only half (51%) of students who enrolled at four-year institutions in 1995-96 completed bachelor's degrees within six years at the institutions at which ...