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Brian Johnson; Elise Swanson – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
Using data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators, this brief explores changes in the Los Angeles County labor market and in the working-age population as a plausible explanation for some of the enrollment decline at the county's community college campuses.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, COVID-19, Pandemics, Declining Enrollment
Brian Littleton Perry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the past 30 years, a shift occurred in higher education that saw more of the burden for paying for postsecondary education placed on students. Combined with rising tuition and fees, this has led students to take on increasing amounts of student debt. Despite the historic rise in student loans, surprisingly little attention has focused on…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Loan Programs, Loan Default
Holly Katherine Schmitt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this interpretive case study was to investigate how several community colleges work with local industry partners to create market alignment and uncover the social outcomes within their communities. Most studies within labor market alignment focus on the economic outcomes, but this study sought to review the social outcomes. This…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship
Brian Heseung Kim; Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
Despite decades and hundreds of billions of dollars of federal and state investment in policies to promote postsecondary educational attainment as a key lever for increasing the economic mobility of lower income populations, research continues to show large and meaningful differences in the mid-career earnings of students from families in the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Labor Market, Community College Students, Graduates
Taylor K. Odle; Lauren C. Russell – Grantee Submission, 2023
Reverse transfer associate degrees are credentials retroactively awarded to current bachelor's degree seekers, combining four-year credits with credits previously earned at a community college. Using administrative data from Tennessee, we use a difference-in-difference design to compare students before and after receipt of a reverse transfer…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Associate Degrees, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
Taylor K. Odle; Lauren C. Russell – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
Reverse transfer associate degrees are credentials retroactively awarded to current bachelor's degree seekers, combining four-year credits with credits previously earned at a community college. Using administrative data from Tennessee, we use a difference-in-difference design to compare students before and after receipt of a reverse transfer…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Associate Degrees, Labor Market, Grade Point Average
Laurie Charlene Brummitt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Student success is a movement mobilizing various community college stakeholders to make policy and institutional change. More recently, researchers, policy leaders, and other community college stakeholders suggest expanding definitions of student success to include community college student post-graduate labor market outcomes, as community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Stakeholders, Labor Market, Administrator Attitudes
Di Xu; Kelli A. Bird; Michael Cooper; Benjamin L. Castleman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Many public workforce training programs lead to industry-recognized, third-party awarded credentials, but little research has been conducted on the economic benefits of these credentials in the labor market. This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the labor market returns to industry-recognized credentials connected to community college…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Credentials, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
Terrell, Jenna; Roldan-Rueda, Diana; Estacion, Angela; Spencer, Hayley; Sublet, Cameron – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic created a historic, global disruption in the labor market. In the short term, the labor force participation rate dropped precipitously as workers were laid off or furloughed, especially in sectors that were most affected by social distancing protocols, such as hospitality, travel and leisure, and retail (Lund et al., 2021).…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Community Colleges, Vocational Schools
Smith, Steven C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study used an in-depth qualitative multi-interview approach to explore the lived experience of associate in applied science (AAS) students at a community college in North Carolina. The purpose of this study is to explore the aspirations of community college students enrolled in career focused AAS programs to understand their stated goals, the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Occupational Aspiration, Interpersonal Relationship, Socioeconomic Status
Minaya, Veronica; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
We estimate labor market returns to terminal associate's degrees and certificates, with a particular focus on how returns for different credential types evolve over a longer period of time (eleven years post entry) than most of the prior literature. We also explore how returns vary depending on labor market conditions and on which labor market…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Labor Market, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges
Karl Schulze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of three chapters that study individual investment in human capital and the incidence of economic shocks. I use administrative data to answer these questions, developing and applying structural methods to analyze individual choices in combination with a careful consideration of research design. Chapter 1 studies the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Majors (Students), College Students, Labor Market
Jeff Strohl; Zachary Mabel; Kathryn Peltier Campbell – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
There are hundreds of local labor markets fuel the American economy, and each one is driven by the needs of the local area's mix of industries and the skills of its workers. For each labor market to operate at its peak potential, these needs and skills must align. Achieving alignment requires local education and training providers to convey…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Labor Supply, Job Skills, Vocational Education
van Dijk, Diana – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Refugees face multiple barriers to employment, such as previous work experience and qualifications not recognized. The Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences offers a higher vocational education and training (VET) dual program for highly-skilled refugees, in which education and work is combined. After completion of the two-year program,…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Vocational Education
Eddy, Pamela L.; Davis, Jemilia S.; DeSantis, Andrea L.; Haley, Karen J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Strategic plans are valuable tools for colleges seeking to cast vision and provide focused guidance for leadership and faculty, but it is not clear how these plans address student success. This study analyzed plans from 55 of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina. First, we analyzed the plans using a 10-step strategic planning framework to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Success, Case Studies