Many of these students, like Boyd, have to work to pay quickly rising tuition costs, making it harder to get through school. Boyd sleeps three hours a night — four, if he’s lucky.
“After five years, you get used to it,” he says.
Lovenheim and his colleagues found that the longer it takes students to finish their degrees, the more likely they’ll drop out.
That’s one of several factors that have historically conspired to push down graduation rates _ and that have gotten worse, not better, in the two years since the president announced his goal.
First, the $12 billion Obama initially promised to community colleges — a linchpin of his strategy, which he called on to increase their number of graduates by 50 percent — was siphoned off to help get the contentious health care bill passed. As a compromise, $2 billion was pledged for career training through a program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.
But it took until January of this year for the first $500 million to be made available — it won’t actually be awarded to schools with winning career-training proposals until the end of September — and the rest is in the sights of congressional budget-cutters.
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