Student Engagement Post-Secondary Education

Kuh, Cruze, Shoup, Kinzie, Gonyea (2008) provided that a college or post-secondary education degree is crucial in attaining individual, communal and societal achievement or progress. A high school diploma has lesser weight compared to a college degree and a person with it is believed to have acquired relevant knowledge and growth that would be cognitively and economically beneficial to him. To the community and society in general, a large number of college graduates will possibly result to better family lives and the transfer of such pleasurable condition to the next generation.

However, Kuh et al., (2008) also reported that not all college entrants complete post-secondary education. In 1995 to 1996, only half or 51% of students who enrolled for a four-year course achieved their degree within 6 years at the institutions where they started. 7% completed their course within 6 years after attending two or more...
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