How Health Care Costs Contribute To Student Retention

On community college campuses, where tuition is a fraction that of four-year schools, health insurance costs have become an unlikely driver of academic decisions. In some cases, students and their parents have done the math and concluded that a year's tuition isn't much more than the cost to insure a young adult on an independent policy. But at its extreme, say faculty, the phenomenon is keeping some young adults on campus who sleepwalk through their classes because they enrolled under parental pressure. Read more at:
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