Community colleges are vital sources of educational and economic opportunities in urban areas. This chapter provides readers with a review of the research on students served by these institutions. While the experiences of this population are similar in many ways to those of community college students across the country, the influence of their…

In this study, we use estimated public transit routes for high school students in Baltimore City to predict the number of days they are late during the school year. We find that after adjusting for individual and school characteristics, school preferences, and neighborhood fixed effects, total travel time and transit use are not predictive of…

A survey of second-year medical students at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn was conducted to obtain their views of the surrounding community, which has been transformed from a middle class to a poverty neighborhood. The respondents expressed concern about crime, pollution, and crowding. (Author/JMD)