The Missing Student at Graduation

Does Faculty Tenure Improve Student Graduation Rates?

The primary objective of this paper is to determine whether tenure in comparison to non-tenure faculty employment is efficient in producing the academic success of university students. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for university graduation rates while the inefficiency specification includes measures of tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure track faculty employment. Using panel ...

Factors affecting graduation and student dropout rates at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

This paper aims to introduce into the literature a competing risks methodology that can be used to help identify some student-specific and/or institutional factors which may be influencing the type of outcome experienced by a student when they leave the university system. Focusing on the length of time that it takes students to graduate or drop out from their studies, this new methodology was a...

The effect of student aid reform on graduation

In this paper we estimate the effect of the change from a loan-based to a grant-based student financial aid system on the graduation times. Starting from simple assumptions on how the explanatory variables affect study intensity, we derive the duration distribution for the times-to-degree that turns out to follow a two parameter Gamma distribution. We then show that the effect of the time-varyi...

Third Circuit Holds That Prayer at Graduation Is Unconstitutional Even If It Results from a Student Vote

Distinguishing "Missing at Random"i and "Missing Completely at Randomn"