scholarly journals The Returns to Education at Community Colleges: New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave E. Marcotte
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Community College Education ◽  
National Education ◽  
Associate's Degree ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Recent Cohort

I use nationally representative data from the Education Longitudinal Survey (ELS) to update the literature on returns to community college education. I compare the experiences of the ELS cohort that graduated high school in 2004 with those of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) cohort that graduated high school more than a decade earlier, in 1992. I estimate that community college students from the ELS cohort were more likely to be employed, and that those who were earned about 21 percent more than comparable peers with only a high school education. This estimate is at least as large as that observed for the NELS cohort, though I find some evidence that the value of an associate's degree is smaller for the more recent cohort. I compare these results with those from the burgeoning body of research using state administrative data to answer similar questions.

A National Analysis of Noncredit Community College Education: Enrollment, Funding, Accountability, and Contextual Issues

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 288-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark M. D’Amico ◽  
Grant B. Morgan ◽  
Stephen G. Katsinas ◽  
J. Lucas Adair ◽  
Michael T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Community College Education ◽  
Education Enrollment ◽  
National Analysis

scholarly journals The Economic Returns of a Community College Education

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge R. Sanchez ◽  
Frankie Santos Laanan
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Community College Education

Noncredit Education Enrollment and Outcomes: Exploring the "Black Box" of Noncredit Community College Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Mark M. D'Amico ◽  
Grant B. Morgan ◽  
Zoë Mercedes Thornton ◽  
Vladimir Bassis
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Occupational Training ◽  
Community College Education ◽  
Carnegie Classifications ◽  
Career Clusters ◽  
Education Enrollment ◽  
Contact Hours ◽  
Noncredit Education

Representing approximately two in five community college students, noncredit education is an important but understudied segment of the higher education population. In an effort to help open the "black box" of noncredit education in community colleges, the present study uses an established noncredit course typology (occupational training, sponsored occupational training, personal interest, and precollege remediation) to better understand the predictors of noncredit enrollment and outcomes in Iowa. Using a sample of more than 181,000 records, we employed a series of regression analyses to discuss variables associated with enrollment in the noncredit course types, the number of completions, and the number of contact hours. Nuanced findings and implications were associated with race/ethnicity, gender, institutional mission as captured through Carnegie Classifications, and career fields based on the 16 career clusters.

scholarly journals Understanding Loan Aversion in Education

AERA Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 233285841668364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Boatman ◽  
Brent J. Evans ◽  
Adela Soliz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Community College ◽  
College Women ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
College Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Different Populations

Although prior research has suggested that some students may be averse to taking out loans to finance their college education, there is little empirical evidence showing the extent to which loan aversion exists or how it affects different populations of students. This study provides the first large-scale quantitative evidence of levels of loan aversion in the United States. Using survey data collected on more than 6,000 individuals, we examine the frequency of loan aversion in three distinct populations. Depending on the measure, between 20 and 40% of high school seniors exhibit loan aversion with lower rates among community college students and adults not in college. Women are less likely to express loan-averse attitudes than men, and Hispanic respondents are more likely to be loan averse than White respondents.

Community College Education for Nursing

1959 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 1307
Author(s):  
Kathryn W. Cafferty ◽  
Mildred L. Montag ◽  
Lassar G. Gotkin
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Education ◽  
Community College Education
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