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Here To Stay? Assessing the Relationships Between College Access Programs and College Enrollment and Persistence Outcomes of Underrepresented Students (Poster 7)
Fri, April 22, 4:15 to 5:45pm PDT (4:15 to 5:45pm PDT), San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Sails PavillionAbstract
Pre-college access programs operating in high schools commonly focus on assisting underserved and historically excluded populations of students in preparing for, applying to, and enrolling in postsecondary education. Through two analyses, this study examines the efficacy of two types of access programs in facilitating postsecondary enrollment and persistence outcomes for students and schools served by access programs, over the past two decades. The first analysis uses a propensity score weighting approach and data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to examine if participation in a federal access program (Talent Search, Upward Bound, and Gear Up) impacts students likelihood of academically undermatching when either applying to, or enrolling in college. The second analysis utilizes a difference-in-differences design to investigate school-level impacts of near-peer advising programs in the state of Michigan between 2007 and 2020. Using a panel dataset of Michigan high schools as well as data provided by the National College Advising Corps, and the Michigan College Access Network, this analysis specifically investigates near-peer advising program impact on partner school graduation, college-going, and college credit attainment rates. Given few school-level analyses of such programs, and the focus these programs place on serving historically excluded populations, the second analysis also disaggregates these outcomes by student race and ethnicity, and by sex to examine how any program effects vary between student populations. Taken together, both analyses aim to contribute to our understanding of whether access programs impact these postsecondary transition outcomes, and if so, for which students.