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- Building Pathways to Success for Low-Skill Adult Students: Lessons for Community College Policy and Practice from a Statewide Longitudinal Tracking StudyJenkins, Davis; Prince, David (Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005-04-01)This report is based on a first-of-its-kind study of the progress and outcomes of low-skill adults in community colleges. The study uses student record information from the Washington State Community and Technical College System to track two cohorts of adult students 25 or older with at most a high school education who entered one of the state's community or technical colleges for the first time in 1996–97 or 1997–98. The study examines the educational attainment of the students in both cohorts as well as their earnings five years after they enrolled.
- Charting Pathways to Completion for Low-Income Community College StudentsTrimble, Medeline Joy; Jenkins, Davis (Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2011-09-01)This article 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. The article also identifies patterns of progression among students with low socioeconomic status and makes recommendations for practitioners and policymakers.
- Community College Low-Income and Minority Student Completion Study: Descriptive Statistics from the 1992 High School CohortBailey, Thomas R.; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy (Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005-01-01)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 respondents was surveyed through four follow-ups in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 2000. The 2000 survey collected information on both education and job outcomes of respondents. The NELS:88 database includes transcripts of individuals in the sample who enrolled in any postsecondary education.
- Community Colleges and the Equity Agenda: What the Record ShowsBailey, Thomas R.; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy; Jacobs, James (Community College Research Center, 2003-04-01)This paper presents national data on the economic returns to postsecondary education for African American and Hispanic students and the performance of community colleges and other postsecondary institutions in expanding access to opportunity by racial/ethnic minority students.
- The Effects of Institutional Factors on the Success of Community College StudentsBailey, Thomas R.; Calcagno, Juan Carlos; Jenkins, Davis; Kienzl, Gregory S.; Leinbach, Timothy (Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005-01-01)This study’s aim is to determine the institutional characteristics that affect the success of community college students as measured by the individual student probability of completing a certificate or degree or transferring to a baccalaureate institution.
- How to Measure Community College Effectiveness in Serving Transfer StudentsJenkins, Davis; Fink, John (Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017-12-01)While many students who start at a community college intend to transfer and complete a bachelor’s degree, most of them are not successful. One of the impediments to improving outcomes for these students has been the lack of widely available measures of institutional effectiveness in serving transfer students. In this guide, the authors provide instructions for community colleges that want to use National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data to measure their effectiveness in serving transfer students. To do so, colleges will need to access both NSC enrollment and degree file data on their students.
- Matching Talents to Careers: From Self-directed to Guided PathwaysBailey, Thomas R.; Belfield, Clive; Jenkins, Davis; Kopko, Elizabeth (American Enterprise Institute, 2015-08-04)College plays an important role in connecting students with jobs and careers. Individuals with college degrees are on average able to secure higher paying, higher status jobs than are those with no college credential or even some college. Students do bring to college innate aptitudes, tastes, and temperaments that may make them better suited to certain careers than to others. Yet, the experience of college is intended to help them not only build on their talents in ways that will enable them to advance in the labor market, but also explore career options and develop interests that will help them determine what occupations they want to work in. This article examines the matching process between students and college programs or majors.
- What We Know About Community College Low-Income and Minority Student Outcomes: Descriptive Statistics from National SurveysBailey, Thomas R.; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy (Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005-01-01)This report summarizes the national statistics on access and attainment by low-income and minority community college students. The data come from the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) annual surveys of all postsecondary educational institutions and the NCES Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study 1996-2001 (BPS:96/01). The latter follows for six years a nationally representative sample of all first-time beginning college students from the 1995-96 school year, with follow-up surveys in 1998 and 2001.