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Article: COLLEGE GRADUATION RATE SINKS IT'S 49.6% IN SIX YEARS AT STATE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THE WORST SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN IN 1989.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- October 18, 1998
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Byline: Bill Scanlon Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Fewer than half the freshmen who enrolled in Colorado public colleges and universities in fall 1991 had graduated six years later, state records show.
The 49.6 percent graduation rate is the worst since the Colorado Commission on Higher Education began keeping track nine years ago.
The Colorado rate fell despite initiatives to improve it.
``We've got to see better results than that,'' said Jim Sulton, the commission's senior academic officer. ``The legislature, when it comes back in session, will be very concerned about it.''
Nationally, 50.5 percent of freshmen who started ...