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ERIC Number: EJ748872
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Feb
Pages: 33
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0361-0365
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Initial Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of Work Colleges
Wolniak, Gregory C.; Pascarella, Ernest T.
Research in Higher Education, v48 n1 p39-71 Feb 2007
With the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the impacts that attending a work college may have on students while in college and up to 25 years later, this study estimated the effects of graduating from a group of work colleges on alumni educational and employment outcomes. Based on an overall sample of 7083 alumni from 5 work colleges, 20 private liberal arts colleges, and 5 public regional universities, a series of regression equations tested for differences across a range of college and employment related outcomes. With respect to a variety of facets of undergraduate educational outcomes, results indicate that attending a work college, relative to other types of institutions, has significant long-term effects. With respect to socioeconomic outcomes, results indicate that work colleges provide the greatest benefit to students from families with relatively low parental incomes.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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