42% of stopped-out young adults cited financial reasons for leaving college, survey finds (Higher Ed Dive)
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For college administrators, reenrolling students starts with acknowledging that students are stopping out in the first place, said Jim Fong, founding director of UPCEA’s Center for Research and Strategy.
“Colleges often don’t want to admit how many students leave school before graduating,” Fong said. “Institutions don’t want to tell the community, ‘Oh, we lost X number of students this year more than last year. That isn’t viewed as good PR.”
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