Higher Ed Utah

The Chronicle of Higher Education (3/29, Marchand) reports, “Even though most community-college students say they are motivated, many haven’t developed the habits that could lead them to actually achieve their academic goals.” This is “a key finding of a new national survey of community- and technical-college students that is being released on Monday. A report on the survey, ‘Benchmarking and Benchmarks: Effective Practice With Entering Students,’ provides six benchmarks for colleges that are trying to improve students’ habits during the critical first three weeks of class.” While “90 percent of community-college students said they agreed or strongly agreed that they had the motivation to do what it took to succeed in college and 85 percent believed they were academically prepared, about 33 percent said they had already turned in an assignment late” and a “quarter of the students surveyed also reported that they skipped class one or more times within the first three weeks of class”