Student Retention Quotes

It is so stupid to deport foreign students who come here, study and get their degrees here, and want to start up a company and employ people.

After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level.

I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.

I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.

I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers.

If you can promise a vital and vibrant research environment as well as great students to your faculty, you can recruit some top faculty. The top faculty on your roster will then help you to attract further top students in your program.

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data shows.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

What incentive does a university have to control costs when it has a steady supply of students being lent federal funds?