Jonathan William Bolonchuk
Carmen Williams
Office of Institutional Research
November 28, 2000
The number
of new freshmen enrolling at the University of North Dakota
in
the Fall Semester of 1996 totaled 1,651. Of this total 1,213
completed the
Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) survey
(see APPENDIX A)
during their participation at “Getting Started” during
the summer of 1996 (see
APPENDIX C for 1996 findings). Four years later a follow-up
was administered
to this group of students in an effort to track their progress
toward graduation.
This survey was mailed to 875 students, still enrolled at
UND, and achieved a
34.9% (305) response rate (see APPENDIX B).
CIRP is a national study of the American Higher Education
System
sponsored by the American Council on Education and administered
by the
Higher Education Research Institute at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
The findings of this study are given in APPENDIX D, with
comparative nationally
normed data for public universities. Below is a discussion
of the 1996 UND new
freshmen, with their responses four years later, and how
they compare with their
national counterparts.
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