How to Cut College Dropout Rates by: David L. Kirp https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/opinion/how-to-cut-college-dropout-rates.html

A Fact: Here’s a hair-on-fire statistic: In 2017, just a third of undergraduates at the nation’s public universities graduated in four years — the amount of time a bachelor’s degree is supposed to take — and even with two additional years, only 58 percent earned a diploma. The community college figures are even more dispiriting: 22 percent of students at public two-year colleges received an associate degree within three years and 28 percent within four years.

Opinion: Dropouts may actually wind up worse off than if they hadn’t started college. While they earn a little more, they are likely to leave school with a pile of debt, but without the chance to pay it off by securing the high-paying jobs that a degree is supposed to open up.

Claim: All too often, a promising scheme that works at one institution cannot be replicated, but these initiatives travel well.