Indiana Higher Ed Commission: College Dropouts Urged To Return

Higher Ed Commission Program Encourages College Dropouts to Return

Hayleigh Colombo | January 2, 2016

Indiana’s colleges and universities want to get dropouts back to class.
More than 750,000 Indiana residents—or about 22 percent of the state’s working-age adults—have attended some college but quit before completing their degrees.
They may have left because of work or financial problems or family obligations. The reasons are countless.

America's Awful College Droupout Rates, in Four Charts. November 19, 2014. Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/11/19/u_s_college_dropouts_rates_explained_in_4_charts.html

<more at http://www.ibj.com/articles/56455-higher-ed-commission-program-encourages-college-dropouts-to-come-back; related links: http://indianapublicmedia.org/stateimpact/2014/09/16/school-dropouts-college/ (Back To School: How To Get Dropouts Back In College. September 16, 2014) and http://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2014/09/14/tuition-discount-hopes-lure-hoosiers-back-college/15537097/ (Tuition discount hopes to lure Hoosiers back to college. September 15, 2014)>