2012 Report: The Attitudes and Needs of Freshmen at Mid-Year
Included with this mid-year report: Gaps in campus services for first-year students, students’ college completion plans at mid-year, and changes in student needs from the beginning of the year.
Download this companion report to Noel-Levitz’s 2012 National Freshman Attitudes Report to examine the self-reported attitudes, needs, and motivations of college freshmen at the beginning vs. the middle of their first year. Based on a national sample of more than 4,000 freshmen attending college in 2011-2012 who completed the Mid-Year Student Assessment, the report and the assessment identify gaps in campus services to: 1) assist colleges and universities with bolstering campus efforts for student success and retention and, 2) to guide interventions with individual students who are at risk.
HIGHLIGHTS
By the middle of their first year…
- Only half or less of the freshman respondents from four-year private and public institutions reported they had received help with career planning.
- A greater proportion of respondents at private and public two-year and four-year institutions reported they had received tutoring assistance by mid-year than had initially indicated a desire for tutoring at the start of the year.
- Fifty-five percent of students at two-year public institutions, 18 percent of students at four-year public institutions, and 9 percent of students at four-year private institutions reported they planned to transfer to another college or university to complete a degree or program.
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Note: Participating institutions in this study gathered the data from their freshmen by administering a pre-test and a post-test. Initially, they administered the 100-item College Student Inventory Form B during orientation or students’ first weeks of classes, then administered the subsequent follow-up assessment, Noel-Levitz’s Mid-Year Student Assessment™, near the end of the students’ first term.