Yearly Success and Progress Rates
The steady growth in the six-year college completion rate started to slow down for full-time starters in fall 2014, and the rate declined notably for part-time starters. Full-time starters at community colleges earned a credential at the highest rate in six years (46.5% by year six), whereas the stop out rate increased sharply for their part-time counterparts from a year ago. The persistence disadvantage in part-time entering students appears to be worsening, with an increasing stop out rate early in their career.
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Enrollment continues to decline in fall 2022. 
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports on the shifting transfer landscape during COVID-19 in a rapid response report series titled COVID-19 TRANSFER, MOBILITY, AND PROGRESS. On August 31, 2021, the Research Center issued a comprehensive annual report, revealing that American colleges lost nearly 200,000 transfer students in the first full year of the pandemic.
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The Some College, No Credential (SCNC) report series seeks to understand the educational trajectories of millions of U.S. adults who left postsecondary education without receiving a postsecondary credential and are no longer enrolled. 
This white paper unravels the insights and implications of the factors that influence the learner’s path to and through post-secondary education. Preliminary research illustrates the need to better understand the shifting age demographic of the post-secondary student population — the median age has risen to 25 — causing a rise in the “confidence gap.”
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As economic changes continue to require more postsecondary education for career success, colleges and universities stand to play a pivotal role in the future of work by connecting working adults with the skills required to succeed in the workplace. 
This white paper centers around adults’ unique backgrounds such as motivations, prior schooling experiences, and linguistic and cultural resources, as the foundation of understanding how adult students learn best. The Adult Learner Model synthesizes this research by bringing together findings from cognitive psychology, sociology, basic and continuing education, higher education, adult literacy, workforce training, digital literacy, and English language acquisition.
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