{"id":302,"date":"2011-06-30T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.vcu.edu\/vcusochealth\/2011\/06\/30\/community-colleges-increasingl\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:43:31","slug":"community-colleges-increasingl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/community-colleges-increasingl\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Colleges Increasingly Important to Bachelor&#8217;s Degree Completion (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, June 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Arial\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highereducation.org\/reports\/pa_at\/PolicyAlert_06-2011.pdf\">policy alert <\/a>from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education calls attention to the increasing importance of community colleges.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>\u00b7<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><font face=\"Arial\">Community colleges account for approximately 40% of all&nbsp;higher education&nbsp;enrollments.&nbsp; Enrollment in community colleges varies by state, reaching as high as 70% in Wyoming in 2007-2008.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>\u00b7<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><font face=\"Arial\">Students who enroll in community colleges are more likely to be low income, the first in their families to go to college, and members of underrepresented racial or ethnic groups.&nbsp; Among low-income students (with family income below $25,000), 44% attend community colleges as their first college after high school.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>\u00b7<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><font face=\"Arial\"><span>Students <\/span><span>who intend to complete a Bachelor&#8217;s degree but enroll in a community college first are about 15% less likely to complete their degree, even after background characteristics are taken into account. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p>More on education in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societaldistress.org\/Content.aspx?ID=119\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societaldistress.org\/Content.aspx?ID=217\">Michigan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societaldistress.org\/Content.aspx?ID=218\">Mississippi<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societaldistress.org\/Content.aspx?ID=219\">New Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A policy alert from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education calls attention to the increasing importance of community colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,30,31,85],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-bachelors-degree","tag-college-graduation","tag-community-college","tag-higher-education"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}