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When our students leave the school systems, just 25 percent of them will have the full-time college experience that we think of: residence halls, football games, fraternity or sorority membership, and maybe a job for a little pocket money.

A Public Agenda Report found that 45 percent of students at four-year universities work 20 hours or more. More than half of the community college students work more than 20 hours a week and more than a quarter work 35 hours or more. Twenty-three percent of all college students have children. Continue reading →