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Community colleges say excluding part-time students skews graduation rates

USA Today

July 22, 2008

The policy has been around since 1990, when the Education Department, responding primarily to concerns about academic performance of athletes, began requiring institutions that receive federal financial aid to submit graduation data. Four-year universities have their complaints about it, too, but community college advocates say the numbers paint an unfair and inaccurate picture of what happens on their campuses.

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