December 1, 2006

2-Year-College Students Rarely Use Advisers, Survey Shows

By ELYSE ASHBURN

Full-timers are found to be more 'engaged' than part-timers are

For years administrators at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, in Richmond, Va., had a hunch that students were not taking full advantage of the college's advising services. Still, they were disappointed two years ago, when the Community College Survey of Student Engagement revealed that their students rarely used career services and only occasionally sought academic advising.

"We weren't too pleased with the

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