Working Hard for the Degree: An Event History Analysis of the Impact of Working While Simultaneously Enrolled

• In Event: Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: The College Experience

Abstract

In this study, I am interested in modeling the factors that, over time, influence baccalaureate degree attainment, with a particular focus on working while simultaneously enrolled. Working is a large component of the lives of many community college students and, as such, this proposed project will probe the roll of relative wages earned in order to tell a more complete story of the degree completion for community college students. In order to better inform the field of the factors influencing degree attainment for community college students, with a particular focus on wages earned, I ask: “What are the factors that, over time, contribute to bachelor degree attainment for community college?”

Author

• Toby Park, The Florida State University