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This is a 10 page paper that provides an overview of the difficulty of retaining non-traditional students. A qualitative approach provides for the analysis of a structured interview. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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markets and organizations, and a university system which is incapable of supplying a diverse pool of educated talent to the market is a system that is failing to meet its
goals. Moreover, organizations and universities alike are tasked with the hiring and acceptance of minorities as a matter of legislative; failure to bring about the matriculation of these students represents
a fundamental failure on the behalf of universities. For these reasons, there is an immediate and pressing need for universities to identify the major barriers to matriculation for non-traditional students
and then alter existing policies so as to address these barriers and the internal deficiencies which gave rise to them. In order to do this, of course, it is necessary
to conduct research into the experiences of non-traditional students of various minority categories. In order to carry out this research project, the researcher developed and administered an interview survey instrument
in order to qualitatively examine the experiences of students in an effort to determine what aspects of their experiences were most correlated with their decisions not to finish their college
education. The interview adopts a structured protocol in that the same questions are administered to all respondents, enabling a degree of consistency in the interpretation of results, despite the qualitative
approach to the research in general. This paragraph helps the student provide a rationale for the use of a structured interview and a qualitative research design. The approach utilized
for this particular research issue is qualitative in nature. A working definition of qualitative research indicates that it is a "form of systematic empirical inquiry into meaning" (Shank, 2006). This
indicates the explicatory function of qualitative research, even though it does not adhere to the more objective and straightforward standards suggested by a quantitative approach (Bogdan & Biklen, 2007). For
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