Browsing by Author "Long, Mark C."

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    Sign Me Up: The Factors Predicting Students’ Enrollment in an Early-Commitment Scholarship Program
    Goldhaber, Dan; Long, Mark C.; Person, Ann E.; Rooklyin, Jordan; Gratz, Trevor (SAGE, 2019-06-20)
    We investigate factors influencing student sign-ups for Washington State’s College Bound Scholarship program and consider whether there is scope for the program to change college enrollment expectations. We find that student characteristics associated with signing the scholarship pledge closely parallel characteristics of low-income students who attend 4-year colleges, suggesting that signing the pledge is driven largely by preexisting expectations of college going. We also find evidence that student sign-up rates are lower than have been previously reported, which is important given the perception among program administrators that nearly all eligible students sign up.
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    When Affirmative Action is Banned, Minority Applicants to College Have a Harder Time – Even in Neighboring States
    Blume, Grant H.; Long, Mark C. (Scholars Strategy Network, 2014-01-01)
    The consideration of race as one factor in college admissions was once legally acceptable all over the United States – as codified in the landmark Supreme Court ruling in the 1978 Bakke case. Over the last fifteen years, however, statewide bans and patchwork judicial rulings have banned affirmative action in some states, while allowing a limited version to continue in others. Researchers have looked at the impact of banning affirmative action on college admissions for particular states or universities. But, the authors are the first to analyze the effects nationwide. The bans do matter, they find, influencing institutional practices and making admission to selective public universities harder not only for minority students applying in states where preferences have been ruled out, but also for those applying from neighboring states.