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...increasing number of boomers approaching retirement age are postponing travel plans and staying on the job longer. According to a study in October by AARP, 65% of people over the age of 45 say they will delay retirement if the economic situation doesn't improve significantly. Since that survey was published, stocks have sunk lower and the economy has formally entered into recession...
This year, NSSE surveyed more than 380,000 randomly selected students at 722 four-year colleges and universities. And the results were surprising. Rather than showing vast differences between schools, the survey highlighted huge disparities in how well each campus was engaging all of its students. For instance, how engineering students scored the quality of on-campus tutoring programs at School A vs. School B may not have varied much. But how School A's engineering students judged those programs may be radically different from how School A's business students do. That finding underscores why using one single number...
Participation in NSSE is voluntary, but the number of schools that do so has tripled in the past five years, and some 1,300 campuses have now taken part in the survey at least once. But those that do participate tend to be small and independent colleges, which are likely to score better on NSSE if only because the size of their student body allows for more one-on-one attention than larger universities. Earlham is one of many NSSE participants that publish their results in pamphlets or on their websites...
...many schools that participate in the survey don't make their data public; some fear that the results, which include comparisons with the scores of similar institutions, might ultimately be used as part of what they view as the college rankings rat race. Indeed, U.S. News already publishes NSSE data for all the schools that are willing to fork it over. You won't find Ivy League schools in that category, but there are lots of big schools like Penn State and Texas A&M that make their NSSE data public...
This year's survey highlighted one big group of students who appear to be underserved by many schools: transfer students. NSSE found some 40% of seniors had started at a different institution. Yet according to the survey respondents, transfers tend to receive some of the lowest amount of support on campus. They speak less frequently with faculty members about future plans, work less often with classmates on assignments and half the number of transfers participate in co-curricular activities at about half the rate as non-transfer students. "Schools simply must work harder to pull transfer students in because they...