Do community colleges really divert students from earning bachelor's degrees?

By Duane E. Leigh, A. Gill. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Community College Student Success: What Institutional Characteristics Make a Difference?. (2005, background): “…on community college outcomes has focused on the economic payoff of enrolling in a two-year program and receiving a degree (Grubb, 2002; Kane & Rouse, 1995; 1999) or on the effectiveness of transferring to a four-year institution (Ehrenberg & Smith, 2004; Leigh & Gill, 2003; Rouse, 1995).”
Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Community College Student Success (2010, background): “…colleges (e.g., Alba & Lavin, 1981; Alfonso, 2006; Anderson, 1981; Breneman & Nelson, 1981; Doyle, 2008; Dougherty, 1987; Hilmer, 1997, 2000; Leigh & Gill, 2003; Long & Kurlaender, 2008; Melguizo, 2009; Reynolds, 2006; Reynolds & DesJardins, 2009; Rouse 1995, 1998; Stephan, Rosenbaum, &…”
Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree? (2008, unknown): “2Studies using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79; e.g., Leigh & Gill, 1997, 2003) focused on students who were 14 to 22 years old when first interviewed in 1979, suggesting that they graduated from high school in the 1970s or 1980s.”
Have Adolescents Become Too Ambitious? High School Seniors' Educational and Occupational Plans, 1976 to 2000 (2006, background): “This has led some to conclude that community colleges “democratize” access to higher education (Leigh and Gill 2003, 2004; Rouse 1995, 1998).”
The Community College Route to the Bachelor’s Degree (2015, background): “Similarly, Leigh and Gill (2003) analyzed NLSY data that compared students’ degree aspirations toward the end of high school and again in college, contrasting the changes in students’ aspirations at community and 4-year colleges relative to their baseline aspiration measured during high school.”
Impact of Increased Academic Intensity on Transfer Rates: An Application of Matching Estimators to Student-Unit Record Data (2009, methodology): “ Leigh and Gill (2003) find a similar effect using a more recent data and a different strategy for the purposes of identification.”
The impact of community college attendance on baccalaureate attainment (2006, background): “Thus, controlling for the diversity of educational expectations among community college students is at the center of a proper estimation of the effect of community colleges on baccalaureate degree attainment (Leigh and Gill, 2003).”