Some 3.6 million students entered college for the first time in the fall of 2008, at the height of the Great Recession. Over the next six years, they transferred 2.4 million times, ricocheting between two- and four-year public and private colleges, often across state lines, according to a reportbeing released Tuesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
“This has huge implications for the growing number of states with performance-based funding,” Afet Dundar, associate director of the research center and one of the report’s authors, said in an interview. Such formulas reward or penalize colleges based in part on the number of students they graduate or retain from year to year.
Without taking transfers into consideration, “these students are going to be left out of the calculations,” Ms. Dundar said. Meanwhile, colleges could be financially penalized for successfully launching the academic careers of students who went on to graduate elsewhere.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://chronicle.com/article/Despite-Hurdles-Students-Keep/231397
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