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Calcagno, Juan Carlos; Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis; Kienzl, Gregory; Leinbach, Timothy – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Most of the models developed to examine student persistence and attainment in postsecondary education largely fail to account for the influence of institutional factors, particularly when attendance is observed at multiple institutions. Multi-institutional attendance is common for students who begin at a community college, but until now an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Institutional Characteristics, Minority Groups
Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy – Community College Research Center, 2005
This report summarizes statistics on access and attainment in higher education, focusing particularly on community college students, using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), which follows a nationally representative sample of individuals who were eighth graders in the spring of 1988. A sample of these…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Minority Groups
Bailey, Thomas; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy – Community College Research Center, 2005
This report summarizes the latest available national statistics on access and attainment by low income and minority community college students. The data come from the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) annual surveys of all postsecondary educational institutions and the NCES…
Descriptors: College Students, Postsecondary Education, Low Income Groups, Minority Groups