Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2000 and Financial Statistics, Fiscal Year 2000

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Part-Time Faculty and Community College Student Success

“…Community colleges, which enroll an ever increasing percentage of all undergraduates in the United States, from 35% in 2006 (Provasnik & Planty, 2008) to almost 50% in 2011 (Knapp, Kelly-Reid, & Ginder, 2012), are a different matter. No such pressures exist to research, to publish, or even to acquire significant grants.…”