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Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs

The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students’ academic and demographic characteristics. A quantitative study was conducted to analyze the academic and demographic characteristics of newly admitted, matriculated degree-seeking students (N = 640) from Fall 2002 to Fall 2004 in the Master’s of ...

College campus smoking policies and programs and students' smoking behaviors

BACKGROUND Although tobacco use in the United States has declined over the past 20 years, cigarette use among college students remains high. Additional research is thus needed to determine how university tobacco control policies and preventive education programs affect college students' smoking behaviors. METHODS Approximately 13,000 undergraduate students at 12 universities or colleges in th...

Participant Motivation in Off-Campus Agricultural Credit Programs

There are many things that indicate agriculture has changed rapidly in the last ten years. Change occws SO fast that agriculture could overnight become something different from what it is today (Downey, 1986). Of the many changes agriculture experienced in the 1980s, some changes have been detrimental while others have been quite positive. One positive change is the greater opportunity for adul...

A Survey of Campus Coordinators of Undergraduate Research Programs

Merinda Kaye Hensley is Assistant Professor and Instructional Services Librarian and Scholarly Commons Co-Coordinator in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, e-mail: mhensle1@ illinois.edu; Sarah L. Shreeves is Associate Dean for Digital Strategies at the University of Miami, e-mail: [email protected]; Stephanie Davis-Kahl is Professor and Scholarly Commun...

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