Can universities and colleges do more to identify and re-enroll people who attended college but dropped out before earning a certificate, or an associate or bachelor’s degree? Absolutely, says the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which estimates in a new report that more than 39 million people checked that box as of July 2020.
The critical nexus for this part of the population? Community colleges. Of those 39 million former students, well over half (58 percent) last attended a community college before dropping out.
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