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Montana University Regents told to boost college graduation rates

Montana can do more to improve college graduation rates, the leader of a nonprofit higher education organization said Thursday.

Dennis Jones, president of the Boulder, Colo.-based National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, addressed the Montana Board of Regents, meeting here through Friday.

By 2020, President Barack Obama wants the United States to regain its place as the global leader in the proportion of college graduates.

To meet that goal, the country needs to graduate 150,000 more students. Montana’s share of that is 400 additional graduates a year, Jones said.

By MARY PICKETT Billings Gazette

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_5a813802-a98d-11de-a935-001cc4c03286.html

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Economic Scene – Colleges Are Failing in Graduation Rates

Only 33 percent of the freshmen who enter the University of Massachusetts, Boston, graduate within six years. Less than 41 percent graduate from the University of Montana, and 44 percent from the University of New Mexico. The economist Mark Schneider refers to colleges with such dropout rates as “failure factories,” and they are the norm.

Full Story: http://matr.net/article-35795.html

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