Adjuncts and Retention Rates

Subject: student success
Date: 2010-06-21
From Inside Higher Ed, the summary of a report in Education Policy on the higher attrition among students whose lower division courses -- many of them in GE -- are taught by adjuncts rather than full-time faculty. This confirms earlier findings and adds some details about the specific effects of institution type, type of adjunct, and full-time faculty who aren't tenure track.