The literature indicates that approximately 50% of those who seek a doctoral education complete the degree.  Research indicates that persistence is one of the key issues that students struggle with and negatively impacts their ability to graduate. Other factors include the ability to maintain enrollment; topic selection; and ability to maintain a dissertation supervisor (Seagram, […]

A Stronger Nation tracks the nation’s progress toward the 60% attainment goal. It offers detailed data arrays that describe education attainment at the national, state, and county levels. The report also provides attainment data for each of the nation’s 100 most populous metropolitan regions. All of this data is available in an interactive format to assist you […]

Over the last three years, 724,116 online courses were attempted within the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). From these attempts, 206,533 resulted in a grade of D or F or a withdrawal, accounting for 29% of all attempted online courses (Virginia Community College System, 2015). This does not account for the students who may have […]