Revising Roles, Transforming Trajectories?: Exploring Community College Baccalaureate Programs and Educational Access, Success, and Equity

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Abstract

In the past two decades, there has been a rise in community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs, and they fundamentally shift the role and function of community colleges. My multi-method project utilizes qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the implications of CCB adoption on educational access, success, and equity. In this poster presentation, I will explore how CCB programs, as trajectory-responsive policy projects, interplay with institutional and structural conditions (i.e., administrative, economic, programmatic, social, spatial, and temporal conditions) and students’ social contexts, positions, and trajectories to enable or constrain the stratified feasibility landscape of college participation. I conduct semi-structured 1-on-1 interviews with current and graduated students (n = 30) from five CCB programs in California. I leverage an abductive approach and generate rich insights in the ways that CCB programs contribute to the alleviation or reproduction of economic/social stratification, (im)mobility, and (in)equality/(in)equity.

Author

• Davis Vo, University of California - Los Angeles