A follow-up study of 331 Humacao, Puerto Rico Regional College alumni five years after starting as freshmen

The University of Puerto Rico is an organic system of public higher education with a President as director and the Council on Higher Education as its governing board. The system is composed of the following autonomous units, each headed by a Chancellor: the University Campus at Río Piedras, the University Campus at Mayaguez, the University Campus for Medical Sciences, and the Administration of Regional Colleges of Higher Education. The Río Piedras Campus is one of the two units included in this study. It is by far the largest campus with an enrollment of 26,357 students. The second unit is the Humacao Regional College, which began operations in August 1962 at the city of Humacao with 267 students. Presently it has close to 3,000 students and 150 faculty members. The Humacao Regional College is a sub-unit headed by a Director, who is responsible to the Chancellor for all academic and administrative operations of the college. Considering the need for a systematic study of the public junior college in Puerto Rico, and with the advantage that most Humacao students do transfer to the main campus at Río Piedras, a fact finding a fact finding survey of all full-time students working toward a bachelor's degree and registered for the fall of 1967 was done at Humacao. All transfer students (331) fo the General Studies Faculty were included. Their official transcripts for five consecutive years including the spring of 1972 served as the main source for basic data. A multiple correlation matrix was prepared for the following variables: (1) Sex, (2) College Board Percentage, (3) High School General Point Average, (4) Humacao College General Point Average, (5) Rio Piedras Campus General Point Average, (6) Total College General Point Average, (7) One or More Probations, (8) One or MOre Courses Dropped, (9) One or More Departamental Changes, (10) Termination Year (1 to 5), (11) Success, (12) Age, and (13) Transfers. [...]