University Life of Non-Traditional Students: Engagement Styles and Impact on Attrition.

UNIVERSITIES & colleges; COLLEGE students' conduct of life; COLLEGE student attitudes; SERVICES for college students; AIMS & objectives of higher education; COLLEGE students; PSYCHOLOGY

The article discusses the university experience of first-year non-traditional students and the ways it effects their decision to continue their studies into the second year. It describes the most common risk factors for discontinuing higher education programs among non-traditional students. Other subjects under discussion include the Tinto Interactionalist Theory which suggests high drop-out rates for non-traditional students are explained by the failure of colleges to integrate them into the university culture, the solutions to assimilate non-traditional students into the college life, and assimilation tools such as evening lectures, library services, and pod studies.