Credential Production by Field and Labor Market Alignment at Minority-Serving Institutions: A Descriptive Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorEdgecombe, Nikkien
dc.contributor.authorSanders, Jasmine M.en
dc.date.accessed2019-06-07en
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T17:07:00Zen
dc.date.available2019-07-02T17:07:00Zen
dc.date.issued2018-09-01en
dc.description.abstractScholarship on minority-serving institutions (MSIs) has established the critical role they play in spite of significant financial constraints. At the same time, descriptive statistical analyses have also found that MSIs, as a group, have lower completion rates than the national average. More research is thus needed on the factors underlying the institutional performance of MSIs. This paper presents broad analyses intended to provide a snapshot of one facet of MSI institutional performance—credential production. The authors conduct a descriptive analysis of credential production by field of study across the two- and four-year postsecondary education sectors and compare results for MSIs and non-MSIs. They found that for each credential type—certificates, associate degrees, and bachelor’s degrees—MSIs and non-MSIs have very similar credential production patterns by field. They also found that much of the credential production is concentrated in a relatively narrow set of fields. They found state-level differences in the alignment between high-employment industries and the production of credentials in certain fields. Finally, they concluded this paper with a discussion of the research and policy implications of these findings.en
dc.description.sponsorshipCommunity College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia Universityen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/credential-production-minority-serving-institutions.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/90806en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCommunity College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia Universityen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectMinority-Serving Institutionsen
dc.subjecteducational attainmenten
dc.subjectlabor marketen
dc.subjecthigh employment industriesen
dc.titleCredential Production by Field and Labor Market Alignment at Minority-Serving Institutions: A Descriptive Analysisen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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