Due to diversity of students and their attendance patterns, community colleges face unique challenges in assessing and monitoring student commitment and persistence. This study presents the psychometric properties on a 13-item educational commitment scale measuring a three dimensional construct representing affective, normative and continuance commitment to one's education. Item analyses, internal consistency reliability and Principal Components Analysis with promax rotation provide preliminary support for the theoretically developed scale with regards to the content homogeneity of items. It is argued that this new construct can add clarity to a growing literature investigating college student enrollment behaviors. If subsequent research finds that the instrument accurately predicts student behavior, such as in persistence, colleges would have an efficient means for determining student dropout proneness.