Title: A Conceptual Model of Nontraditional Undergraduate Student Attrition
Abstract: Older, part-time, and commuter students have composed an increasingly larger portion of college student bodies. The reasons why these students drop out of school are not well understood. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rise in nontraditional enrollments, define the nontraditional undergraduate student, and develop a conceptual model of the attrition process for these students. The chief difference between the attrition process of traditional and nontraditional students is that nontraditional students are more affected by the external environment than by the social integration variables affecting traditional student attrition.
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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