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Women in Higher Education

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Student Affairs sucks the life out of a person," a former student affairs professional wrote in a recent survey. The field attracts committed, talented people. Graduate programs invest in training them. Yet a 1983 study found that 90% of women and 60% of men had left student affairs within seven years of getting their master's degree.

"The data was so old we decided to figure it out for ourselves," Dr. Sarah Marshall told WIHE to explain their new attrition study. She and her two co-authors spoke at the March 2006 meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). A fourth is Megan Gardner Moore, an assistant professor at the ...

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