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Mengli Song; Kyle Neering; Kristina L. Zeiser; Robert Schwarzhaupt; Sara Mitchell – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Utilizing a lottery-based natural experiment, this study assessed the longer-term impact of early colleges on postsecondary degree attainment. It found that early colleges significantly increased the overall degree completion and associate degree completion rates within 10 years of expected high school graduation. While the impact on bachelor's…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Graduation Rate, Educational Attainment, Academic Degrees
Rivers, Hope Epps – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The idea that high unemployment rates give rise to higher enrollments for community colleges is widely accepted (Sundberg, 1998). However, according to Betts and McFarland (1995), not much is known empirically about the role that economic factors play in determining two-year college enrollment. Only a few states have included cyclical variables in…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Strategic Planning, Technical Institutes, Community Colleges