Dropping Out, Again: Why So Many College Students Never Graduate - NONA WILLIS ARONOWITZ, NBC News

“Most universities are entirely organized around the residential student, around the type of four-year experience most policymakers in D.C. had,” said Bob Hansen, CEO of UPCEA. “There’s been a fundamental failure on their part to change.” Nontraditional students often have no choice but to go to school part time, which ultimately fails to engage them, said Ben Miller, senior policy analyst at New America Foundation. “What we have to face is that part-time enrollment is just not a path that leads to graduation at a high rate,” he said. “For someone who’s taking so few classes,” and will therefore finish very far in the future, “the question of whether it’s worth their time and money is increasingly harder to say yes to.” http://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/dropping-out-again-why-so-many-college-students-never-graduate-n246956