| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28715 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28715 |
| The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data | |
| George Bulman; Robert W. Fairlie | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-26 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Although enrollment at California’s four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and by another 7 percent from fall 2020 to fall 2021. The California Community College system lost nearly 300,000 students over this period. Our analysis reveals that enrollment reductions were largest among African-American and Latinx students, and were larger among continuing students than first-time students. We find no evidence that having a large online presence prior to the pandemic protected colleges from these negative effects. Enrollment changes were substantial across a wide range of fields and were large for both vocational courses and academic courses that can be transferred to four-year institutions. In terms of course performance, changes in completion rates, withdrawal rates, and grades primarily occurred in the spring of 2020. These findings of the effects of the pandemic at community colleges have implications for policy, impending budgetary pressures, and future research. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28715 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586388 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | George Bulman,Robert W. Fairlie. The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data. 2021. |
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| w28715.pdf（281KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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