Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?

By Bridget Terry Long, Michal Kurlaender. 2008

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Intensity and Attachment (2014, neutral): “There has been some research exploring the nature of upward transfer (see Long & Kurlaender, 2009), but there still remain several outstanding questions concerning enrollment patterns, transfer, and baccalaureate completion.”
High School Socioeconomic Segregation and Student Attainment (2013, neutral): “…special importance because success requires stronger academic preparation and increases the odds of completing a bachelor’s degree, which has long-term implications to social mobility including income and access to a range of careers (Kolesnikova, 2009; Long & Kurlaender, 2009; Monk-Turner, 1990).”
Factors Contributing to the Upward Transfer of Baccalaureate Aspirants Beginning at Community Colleges (2010, positive): “Research based on more recent student populations has also indicated that this disadvantage is still being experienced by today’s baccalaureate-aspiring students who attend community colleges (Long & Kurlaender, 2009).”
The College Application Gauntlet: A Systematic Analysis of the Steps to Four-Year College Enrollment (2011, positive): “Second, while students with four-year degree aspirations may initially enroll in two-year programs with the hope of transfer to a four-year program, researchers have demonstrated that twoyear college enrollment can be a diversion from four-year degrees (Grubb 1991; Alfonso 2006; Long and Kurlaender ”
The impact of online learning on students’ course outcomes: Evidence from a large community and technical college system (2013, neutral): “Some searchers have suggested that individuals or families ho value education might choose to live near a college mpus (e.g., Card, 1995; Long & Kurlaender, 2009; Rouse, 95); similarly, the quality of a student’s previous high hool instruction might vary systematically with the high hool’s distance…”
Running in Place: Low-Income Students and the Dynamics of Higher Education Stratification (2011, positive): “Yet students are 13% less likely to graduate with a bachelor’s degree if they first attend a community college instead of a 4-year college or university (B. T. Long & Kurlaender, 2009).”
Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, neutral): “…account for the nonrandom selection of students across school sectors and the non-overlap in observable characteristics between two-and four-year students, Long and Kurlaender (2009), Reynolds (2012), and Doyle (2009) all report large negative effects of two-year attendance on eventual BA receipt.”
The Community College Route to the Bachelor’s Degree (2015, positive): “Long and Kurlaender (2009) used administrative data from Ohio and found that community college entrants had a 14.5 percentage point lower probability of completing a baccalaureate degree than comparable 4-year college entrants.”
Aid for all: College coaching, financial aid, and post-secondary persistence in Tennessee (2016, neutral): “Thus, accelerated enrollment likely explains little of 13.1 – 22.7 percentage-point treatment effects. college has been shown to lower attainment (Long & Kurlaender, 2009) and reduce post-college earnings (Reynolds, 201234).”
The Benefits of Attending Community College: A Review of the Evidence (2011, positive): “Early literature found a small diversion effect (Rouse, 1995); subsequent studies have found a larger diversion effect in terms of reduced attainment or degree completion (Alfonso, 2006; Bowen et al., 2009; Long & Kurlaender, 2008; Reynolds, 2006; Sandy, Gonzalez, & Hilmer, 2006).”
Access Without Equity (2012, positive): “Baccalaureate completion rates increase with institutional selectivity, both nationally (Astin, 1985; Bowen, Chingos, & McPherson, 2009; Carnevale & Rose, 2003; Long & Kurlaender, 2009) and among students of color specifically (Bowen & Bok, 1998; Melguizo, 2010).”