And Now for Some Good News: Trends in Student Retention at Community Colleges, 2004-2017

Autor/inn/en	Monaghan, David B.; Sommers, Olivia K.
Titel	And Now for Some Good News: Trends in Student Retention at Community Colleges, 2004-2017
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 63 (2022) 3, S.425-452 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Monaghan, David B.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-021-09656-6
Schlagwörter	Educational Trends; Community Colleges; Two Year College Students; Academic Persistence; School Holding Power; State Aid; Economic Climate; Trend Analysis; Tuition; Disadvantaged; Teacher Student Ratio; College Faculty; Expenditure per Student; School Size; Institutional Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsentwicklung; Community college; Community College; Wirtschaftslage; Trendanalyse; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Fakultät
Abstract	Community colleges have been under pressure for years to improve retention rates. Considering well-publicized reductions in state funding during and after the Great Recession, progress in this area is unexpected. And yet this is precisely what we find. Using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), we find an average increase in retention of nearly 5 percentage points, or 9 percent, across the sector from 2004 to 2017. Over 70% of institutions posted retention gains, and average improvement occurred yearly over the period excepting a reversal at the height of the Great Recession. Gains were smaller on average at schools with higher tuition and that serve more disadvantaged populations, and larger at institutions with lower student-faculty ratios and higher per-student instructional spending. Fixed-effects regression and Oaxaca decomposition analyses demonstrate that these gains were not caused by observable changes in student body composition or in institutional characteristics such as increased per-student instructional spending. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01