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Lin, Yuxin; Fay, Maggie P.; Fink, John – Research in Higher Education, 2023
A primary focus among colleges implementing student success reforms has been to increase overall rates of completing any credential and to reduce racial and socioeconomic equity gaps in such completion rates. The focus on general completion may overlook inequities in the type of program students complete, which is particularly significant given…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Racial Differences, Ethnic Groups
Xu, Di; Fink, John; Solanki, Sabrina – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
This paper estimates the patterns and sources of White-Black and White-Hispanic enrollment gaps in Advancement Placement (AP) and dual enrollment (DE) programs across several thousand school districts and metropolitan areas in the U.S. By merging several data sources, we show that both AP and DE enrollment gaps vary substantially across districts.…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, Acceleration (Education), Racial Differences
Lin, Yuxin; Fay, Maggie P.; Fink, John – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
A primary focus among colleges implementing student success reforms has been to increase overall rates of completing any credential and to reduce racial and socioeconomic equity gaps in such completion rates. The focus on general completion may overlook inequities in the type of program students complete, which is particularly significant given…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Two Year College Students, Racial Bias, Ethnicity
Belfield, Clive R.; Jenkins, Davis; Fink, John – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
As community colleges across the country implement large-scale reforms to improve student success, they need timely and actionable metrics to determine if the changes they are making in a given year or term will likely improve student outcomes in the long run. In this brief, the authors examine how well nine measures of students' progress in their…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Success