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Charting Pathways to Completion for Low-Income Community College Students. CCRC Working Paper No. 34
Download full textJenkins, Davis; Weiss, Madeline Joy – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
This study uses administrative data from Washington State to chart the educational pathways of first-time community college students over seven years, with a focus on young, socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Of particular interest are the rates at which students enter a course of study (by passing multiple college-level courses within a…
Descriptors: Credentials, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Low Income Groups
Jenkins, Davis; Ellwein, Todd; Wachen, John; Kerrigan, Monica Reid; Cho, Sung-Woo – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2009
In 2003, Lumina Foundation for Education launched a bold, multiyear, national initiative called "Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count," to help students stay in school and succeed. The initiative is focused particularly on students who have faced the most barriers to success, including low-income students and students of color.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, At Risk Students
Crosta, Peter M.; Leinbach, Timothy; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
Colleges and state higher education agencies too often lack accurate information about the socioeconomic status (SES) of their students. This paper describes the methodology that Community College Research Center (CCRC) researchers used to estimate the SES of individual students in the Washington State community and technical college system using…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Community Characteristics, Census Figures, Two Year College Students
Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
The purpose of this study is to identify the policies and practices of community colleges that are effective in enabling their students to succeed in postsecondary education. The study was conducted through a partnership with the Florida Department of Education's Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education and funded by the Lumina…
Descriptors: School Policy, College Students, Technical Assistance, Community Colleges
Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy – Community College Research Center, 2005
This report summarizes statistics on access and attainment in higher education, focusing particularly on community college students, using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), which follows a nationally representative sample of individuals who were eighth graders in the spring of 1988. A sample of these…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Minority Groups
