Here's Stark State College's Fall  2000 stats. 37% of our students (who
responded)
  work 40 hours or more per week - up 5% from last fall. 39% of our students
work
  20-40 hours per week - up 1% from last fall and 14% stated they were
unemployed.
  Students working are on an upward trend even in this robust economy where
in
  the past one could predict an inverse relationship, ie.high employment
usually
  meant lower enrollments.That old relationship has not existed for us for
2-3 years.

-----Original Message-----
From: Grady, Greg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:01 AM
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Subject: FW: looking for more data on students


Hello all,
I have a former student of mine who has asked the following question about
college students with jobs.  This has also been a question that the Public
Information Department has asked during the past week.  I was asked if I
knew of any such data.  I didn't.  Do any of you fine people know of any
resource or article that would give a percentage or number of college
students who also have jobs?  If possible, some type of comparison with
current and previous years would optimal.  Thank you for any assistance that
you can provide.

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Greg Grady
College of Mount St. Joseph
Cincinnati, OH 45233

> Do you know of any sources that would have student data across the nation?
> Specifically, I am looking for the percentage of students who work today.
> I am working on an article for dateline and a project that deals with this
> topic for my oral communications class. My theory is that students have
> jobs outside of school more today than in the past. And this affects their
> school work. I wonder if data supports this?
>
> Thanks
>
> BJ Schmidt