Tuesday, October 23, 2018

New warnings about California students juggling college and jobs - Larry Gordon, EdSource

Now, student job schedules are receiving more scrutiny from educators who are increasingly worried that working more than 15 or 20 hours a week can harm students’ grades and academic progress. That is an important issue in California where the state’s public universities are trying to push more students to finish their bachelor’s degrees in four years rather than five or six. For example, across the California State University system, the most current four-year graduation rate among students who entered as full-time freshman averaged 23 percent last year; 59 percent finished within six years. https://edsource.org/2018/new-warnings-about-california-students-juggling-college-and-jobs/603499