Exploring the Relationship between COVID-19 and Immediate 2-Year College Enrollment and Persistence among Kalamazoo Promise Scholars

Autor/inn/en	McMullen, Isabel; Collier, Daniel
Titel	Exploring the Relationship between COVID-19 and Immediate 2-Year College Enrollment and Persistence among Kalamazoo Promise Scholars
Quelle	In: New Directions for Community Colleges, (2023) 203, S.75-85 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0194-3081
Schlagwörter	College Attendance; COVID-19; Pandemics; Access to Education; College Credits; Program Effectiveness; Academic Persistence; Tuition; Enrollment Trends; Community College Students; School Holding Power; High School Students; Academic Achievement; Stopouts; Student Characteristics; In State Students; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Achievement; Performance; Anrechnung; Leistung; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Community college; Community colleges; College students; Community College; Collegestudent; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schulleistung; Ausstieg
Abstract	There are hundreds of recognized tuition-free college "promise" programs, but few are as generous or flexible as the Kalamazoo Promise (KPromise). Pre-COVID studies on KPromise have demonstrated effects on increased college attendance, credit completion, and persistence. Extending these findings to the COVID-19 pandemic context can help establish a baseline understanding of the ability and limits of tuition-free college to mitigate a shock to college enrollment and speed the recovery in the aftermath. This chapter explores incoming student college enrollment and first-year persistence among recent KPromise cohorts at the primary community college that scholars attend: Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC). We found that enrollment decreased for two consecutive cohorts, notably among students with lower high school academic performance. We found that first-year stop out overall increased, and these two changes together resulted in demographic changes in the KPromise student population at KVCC. Our findings have important implications for tuition-free programs and the 2-year institutions that receive Promise students. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01