The Impact of Scholarships for Asian American and Pacific Islander Community College Students: Findings from an Experimental Design Study

This report provides results from the study of scholarship funding provided to AAPI students attending PEER community college campus partners. While APIASF distributed scholarships, CARE conducted the external evaluation to measure the impact of the funding on intermediate and long-term academic outcomes. As the first study to examine AAPI scholarship recipients at community colleges, we focus this report on describing the cohort of applicants for the scholarship program and provide some early findings from the first year of the longitudinal analysis of recipients and non-recipients. This research provides baseline findings upon which future studies can track the long-term impact of scholarship funding for AAPI students attending community colleges.