The Need for Equitable Scholarship Criteria for Part-Time Students.

ABSTRACT: Current policies and interventions to enhance student success and retention are often tied to full-time enrollment, which are substantiated by studies associating part-time enrollment with lower retention and poorer academic outcomes. However, these findings are limited to studies of first-time college students and do not represent today's nontraditional undergraduate who may be transfer, online, and working adult students. To enhance retention of on-campus and hybrid online 2 + 2 transfer students in a STEM undergraduate program, need-based scholarships are awarded to students enrolled full-time as stipulated by the federal granting agency. Although the scholarship has helped >80 students to date, over 40% of eligible transfer students are excluded only because they are enrolled pa

SUBMITTER: Ardissone AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8054119 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature