To the Editor:
The vast majority of today’s college students are not kids, and they aren’t strolling the quad of a traditional college campus (“Serious Revelations About For-Profits and the Republican Party” The Chronicle, March 26). They are working adults, providing for a family, and are paying for their college education themselves. They are also vastly ignored when the government calculates graduation rates for institutions.
These nontraditional students are left out of the data used to calculate graduation rates because they are not the first-year, full-time students you might see at Ohio State University or other traditional institutions. The graduation rates that Frank Donoghue cited for University of Phoenix account for less than one-third of our total student population. For example, the graduation rate cited for our Northern Virginia campus accounts for only 14 percent of students. To pass judgment on the quality of the University of Phoenix based on such misleading information is reckless. Any responsible blogger will find that accurate data on University of Phoenix graduation rates is easily available in our “Academic Annual Report.”
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