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Persistence, retention drop dramatically during pandemic
Author(s) -
Hope Joan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the successful registrar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7560
pISSN - 1534-7710
DOI - 10.1002/tsr.30879
Subject(s) - fell , persistence (discontinuity) , drop (telecommunication) , drop out , snapshot (computer storage) , cohort , pandemic , covid-19 , demography , psychology , medicine , computer science , geography , mathematics , demographic economics , statistics , engineering , sociology , database , economics , cartography , telecommunications , geotechnical engineering , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Persistence — the rate of first‐year students returning to college at any institution for their second year — fell by 2% for students who started in 2019, the largest drop since the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center started tracking the information. That's according to the NSCRC Snapshot report Persistence and Retention: Fall 2019 Beginning Cohort .