Replication data for: Supporting Community College Students from Start to Degree Completion: Long-Term Evidence from a Randomized Trial of CUNY's ASAP

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Michael J. Weiss; Alyssa Ratledge; Colleen Sommo; Himani Gupta

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Project Citation:

Weiss, Michael J., Ratledge, Alyssa, Sommo, Colleen, and Gupta, Himani. Replication data for: Supporting Community College Students from Start to Degree Completion: Long-Term Evidence from a Randomized Trial of CUNY’s ASAP. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116358V1

Project Description

Summary: Nationwide, graduation rates at community colleges are discouragingly low. This randomized experiment provides evidence that graduation rates can be increased dramatically. The City University of New York's (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is a comprehensive, integrated, 3-year program that has an estimated 18 percentage point effect on 3-year graduation rates, increases 6-year graduation rates by an estimated 10 percentage points, and helps students graduate more quickly. Graduation effect estimates of this magnitude are exceptional in randomized experiments conducted in higher education, offering hope of what is possible when serving low-income students.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: student supports; postsecondary education; community college; randomized controlled trial

JEL Classification:
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
      I24 Education and Inequality
      I28 Education: Government Policy

Geographic Coverage: New York City

Time Period(s): 11/2009 – 7/2018 (Spring 2010 through Summer 2018)

Universe: New community college students with moderate remedial needs who are low-income, willing to enroll full-time, and pursuing credentials that can be completed within two years

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: Students,

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