Campus Visits: Impact of a College Outreach Strategy on Student STEM Aspirations

Joseph Allen Kitchen; Gerhard Sonnert; Philip Sadler

doi:10.1080/19496591.2019.1653312

Campus Visits: Impact of a College Outreach Strategy on Student STEM Aspirations

Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice ◽

10.1080/19496591.2019.1653312 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 57 (3) ◽

pp. 266-281

Author(s):

Joseph Allen Kitchen ◽

Gerhard Sonnert ◽

Philip Sadler

Keyword(s):

College Outreach

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“Math Is What I Love. I Think If I Got Anything from Community College, It’s the Beauty of Math.”: Promoting Mathematics Teacher Education Through Community College Outreach

Community College Journal of Research and Practice ◽

10.1080/10668926.2016.1244499 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 62-65

Author(s):

Maria Gross ◽

Julia Aguirre

Keyword(s):

Community College ◽

Teacher Education ◽

Mathematics Teacher ◽

Mathematics Teacher Education ◽

College Outreach

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The Impact of College Outreach on High Schoolers’ College Choices - Results From Over 1,000 Natural Experiments

Education Finance and Policy ◽

10.1162/edfp_a_00334 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-43

Author(s):

Jonathan Smith ◽

Jessica Howell ◽

Michael Hurwitz

Keyword(s):

First Generation ◽

Natural Experiments ◽

Underserved Students ◽

Percentage Points ◽

Contact Information ◽

Search Service ◽

College Choices ◽

College Outreach ◽

The Impact ◽

Racial Ethnic

We estimate the impact of one of the largest college-to-student outreach efforts in the nation, the College Board's Student Search Service. In an oversubscribed “order”, colleges receive contact information of a randomly chosen subset of PSAT and SAT Exam takers who opted into the service and meet colleges’ search criteria from a larger set of students with identical backgrounds. We find that students who receive outreach enabled by Student Search Service (“licensed”) are 23 percent (0.1 percentage points) more likely to apply to the licensing college than students with similar backgrounds who did not receive outreach. Nearly 20% of students induced to apply to a college because of the Student Search Service also enroll, increasing the probability of enrolling in the college that licensed their contact information by 22 percent (0.02 percentage points). These impacts are twice as large for traditionally underserved students. Responsiveness to college outreach is larger for racial/ethnic minorities, first generation students, and lowand moderate-income students. Despite the fact that one additional license changes the specific institution to which students send scores and enroll, we cannot detect changes to the broad types of colleges in which students ultimately enroll.

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