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A Study of the Variables Influencing the Achievement of College Students Readmitted to the University of Nebraska Following Academic Suspension
Abstract
The University of Nebraska places approximately twenty per cent of all freshman students on scholastic suspension each year. Decreasingly smaller percentages of the sophomore, junior and senior classes are placed on academic suspension. Dole (1963) reported that approximately twenty per cent of the freshman class at the University of Hawaii are dropped for scholastic reasons annually. Lins and Pitts (1953) in a study of the "staying power" of Wisconsin high school graduates who entered the University of Wisconsin as new freshmen in 1948 reported that 20.4 per cent were dropped for scholastic reasons. Williams (1958), in a study completed as early as 1938, which included 305 institutions, reported that 92.9 per cent of the institutions sampled required students to withdraw from college because of unsatisfactory academic records. Summerskill (1962), in his review of the literature on college dropouts, stated that American colleges on the average, lose approximately half their students in the four years after first matriculation. He further reported that one out of three dropouts occurred for academic reasons.
Subject Area
Educational psychology
Recommended Citation
HIMMELREICH, HOWARD WOODROW, "A Study of the Variables Influencing the Achievement of College Students Readmitted to the University of Nebraska Following Academic Suspension" (1967). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6803786.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6803786