Abstract
Limited information is available concerning enrollment patterns of students who do not enroll in a curriculum during their first quarter of attendance at community colleges. This study of a large number (20,031) of noncurricu‐lar students attending community colleges in Virginia was designed to determine the relationships between the persistence rates of these students over a three‐year period and other selected variables. The analysis revealed a statistically significant interaction effect in which race, sex, full‐time or part‐time attendance, and the final curriculum of a student are related to persistence. Further, individual variable effects indicate the importance of the job market on the curricular choices and attendance patterns of the noncurricular community college student.
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