This report investigates 2nd Fall and 3rd Fall retention rates by Expected Family Contribution (EFC) for recent full-time, first-time (FTFT) freshman cohorts. This report serves as an update to, and extension of, prior retention by EFC reports that focused on 2 Fall Retention as the sole dependent variable. Sub-groups of interest including First Generation students, minority ethnicity students,...

LaGrange College attracts hundreds of freshman students across the Southeast each year. It would be beneficial to the college’s Office of Admissions to optimize admission counselors’ paths to reduce expenses on mileage and time. TheK-means algorithmwill be used to cluster students into groups based upon physical locations and to locate regional centers for the states of Alabama, Florida, and Ge...

Two groups of freshman students, enrolled in their first writing course in EFL, participated in the study. Before instruction, no significant differences were found between both groups in their writing ability. Both groups were exposed to the same in-class writing instruction. Since students have difficulty generating ideas in EFL, writing paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details,...

The transition from high school to college can be very difficult for many students. The authors believe that parents can advocate on behalf of their children by educating themselves on particular transitional challenges their children potentially face, as well as by helping these freshmen daughters and sons establish realistic educational and social goals. Parents can assist their children by h...

Since the National Alliance Football Rules Committee issued a mandate in 1962 to require that football players in high school and junior colleges wear mouth-protectors, oral injuries virtually have been eliminated in this group of more than 1,000,000 players.' The authoritative articles on the advantages provided by mouth-protectors indicate, prior t o their use, that dental and mouth injuries ...

EEP Tops Tower 19-12 The Great Dane harr iers of Albany State rolled to their seventh straight victory and eighh over-all Saturday, when they soundly defeated Oneonta State by he score of 20-40, in a meet held at the New Campus course. In an afternoon affair on the same day, State's freshman runners copped a third place trophy in the first Albany | S l Run for frosh and junior colleges. Boston ...

CoWeb is a collaborative learning environment used in many classes at Georgia Institute of Technology; it is an extremely simple domain-independent collaboration tool. Our aim is to show that such a simple system can sustain useful peer-to-peer and instructor-to-student interaction that fosters better performance and learning, without incurring a high cost. In this paper, we present evidence of...

life insurance policy (college freshman), about the same as the Gettysburg Address, and much less readable than Hemingway (fifth grade level). I used more words per sentence than Hemingway (18.5 versus 13.5) but less than Lincoln (26.8). I used longer words than any of the references (4.8 letters per word, versus 4.0 for Hemingway) but used fewer prepositions (10.7 percent) than any of the othe...