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The amount of time students spend working has been of increasing concern for the
educators that serve them and, in some instances, the students themselves. Recent
data would indicate that 80% of American undergraduates worked while attending
college in 1999-2000 (King, 2003).This represents an 8% increase over the class less
than a decade previously, among whom 72% worked (Cuccaro-Alamin & Choy,
1998)
http://www.indiana.edu/~ipas1/workingstudentbrief.pdf
This is potentially serious problem. Some surveys have indicated that students today are spending a larger share of their time working than had been the case for the prior generation. Such work is cutting the amount of time they have for study and other activities e.g., participation in student activities, that are positively correlated with retention, progression, and graduation outcomes. In the past, time spent on homework/study exceeded time spent in class. In some cases, that ratio has reversed, even as hours spent in classroom instruction have remained relatively stable.