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That’s an outdated image. We’ve written a lot about how older adults with jobs and children are a giant group on campus. But a more surprising species is spreading through the college registrar’s rolls: teenagers living at home, taking yellow buses to high school and maybe scrambling home before curfew.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The number of high schoolers taking college classes has been surging for more than two decades. In what is called dual enrollment, students simultaneously earn high school and college credits from a single class. These advanced college-level courses are no longer just for gifted students who have exhausted the high school course catalog. Now they’re a tool to encourage more Americans to enroll in college by giving them an early taste of post-secondary education and a head start with a few credits. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dual enrollment students were estimated at more than 1.4 million in the fall of 2022, and account for almost one out of five community college students. That’s according to estimates from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Some scholars believe the total number could be much higher, perhaps 2 million students, when spring 2023 course taking is included. Dual enrollees appear to far outnumber the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://reports.collegeboard.org/ap-program-results/class-of-2022\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1.1 million high school graduates in the class of 2022 who took at least one Advanced Placement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> exam.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s meteoric,” said Brian An, a sociologist at the University of Iowa. “When I first started working in dual enrollment research in the mid 2000s, it was nowhere near these numbers. If you had told me 10 years ago that 20% of all community college students would be dual enrollment, I would have said that’s crazy talk.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community colleges oversee roughly 70% of dual enrollments with four-year colleges running the remaining 30%. Students often don’t pay any college tuition for dual enrollment classes. In \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019176.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">most cases\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, high schoolers never step foot on a college campus; the class is taught in a high school classroom by a high school teacher. English composition and college algebra are popular.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment.jpg 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of students 17 years old and under enrolled in a community college course increased sharply in the past 10 years. \u003ccite>(Source: Community College Research Center, January 2023)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students are flocking to these courses because they perceive that it’s easier to earn college credits through dual enrollment than through Advanced Placement, said University of Iowa’s An. With Advanced Placement, students have to score high enough on an exam to earn college credit. With dual enrollment, a passing grade is sufficient.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sharp growth in dual enrollment has raised a lot of questions about course content and whether students are really producing college-level work. John Fink, an expert in dual enrollment at the Community College Research Center, acknowledged that quality is uneven. That’s not surprising when 80% of high schools are now offering these courses and there’s decentralized oversight among thousands of colleges around the country. But colleges that oversee these courses are trying to improve quality, Fink said. (The Community College Research Center is a unit of Teachers College, Columbia University. The Hechinger Report is also an independent news organization based at Teachers College, but the two entities are not affiliated.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2.png 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-800x478.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-1020x609.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-160x96.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-768x458.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-1536x917.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More high school students are taking dual enrollment classes, and fewer traditional students are attending community colleges. \u003ccite>(Source: Community College Research Center, January 2023)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite concerns about course rigor, research points to better outcomes for students. Between similar students with comparable grades and family backgrounds, the student who takes a dual enrollment class is more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college and earn a college degree, many studies have found. In 2017, the What Works Clearinghouse, a unit of the Department of Education that reviews education research, gave dual enrollment its stamp of approval with a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/EvidenceSnapshot/671\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strong level of evidence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In qualitative research interviews, students described how dual enrollment courses taught them how to take notes or study for a test, helping them feel more prepared for college. Much of the benefit may be in boosting a student’s confidence and soft skills, and not necessarily in teaching academic content, University of Iowa’s An explained.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A big downside to dual enrollment is that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cherp.utah.edu/_resources/documents/publications/research_priorities_for_advancing_equitable_dual_enrollment_policy_and_practice.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students of color are underrepresented\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That’s an ironic outcome given that advocates, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pushed the expansion of these programs to help promote college going and attainment among Black and Hispanic students. Only one fifth of high schools have managed to enroll Black and Hispanic students in dual enrollment classes at the same or higher rates as white students, Fink said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another reason for the rapid expansion of dual enrollment may be financial. Dual enrollment courses are money losers for many community colleges, according to Fink at the Community College Research Center. That’s because colleges receive a discounted per-pupil allotment for each high schooler who signs up. Each state funds dual enrollment differently, often through a combination of state and school district budgets. Sometimes families need to contribute too, but it tends to be a lot cheaper than a usual college course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But colleges can turn dual enrollment programs into a modest money maker when they serve more students, according to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/community-colleges-afford-dual-enrollment-discount.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 2023 analysis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the Community College Research Center. Once fixed costs are covered, each additional student means an increase in revenues. For example, adding an additional high school teacher to an existing instructor training program isn’t very costly and could open up dozens more student slots, each generating income that flows to the college.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reason that dual enrollments have become such a big slice of community colleges’ offerings is not only because more high school students are taking these courses, but also because fewer traditional students want to attend community colleges. When the pandemic hit in 2020, there were shocking double digit drops in enrollment at community colleges. Dual enrollment classes at many high schools temporarily shut down too, but they dramatically rebounded in 2022-23. Meanwhile, traditional students haven’t been returning to community colleges in large numbers, thanks to a strong job market. High school students even make up the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/the-reckoning-is-here-more-than-a-third-of-community-college-students-have-vanished/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">majority of students at 31 community colleges\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, my colleague Jon Marcus found.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Precise numbers on exactly how many high schoolers are taking dual enrollment classes are hard to come by. The best data is from the National Student Clearinghouse, which receives enrollment data from most colleges in the country. But colleges report only the ages of their students and not whether they have finished high school. The estimates for dual enrollees are based on students 17 years and under and cross-checked against high school records available to the National Student Clearinghouse. We should get a clearer picture next year when the Department of Education is expected to release a more accurate report on the numbers, broken down by race and ethnicity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-high-schoolers-account-for-nearly-1-out-of-every-5-community-college-students/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dual enrollment classes\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proof Points\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and other \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletters\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dual enrollment far exceeds the popularity of Advanced Placement courses.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690044632,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1264},"headData":{"title":"High schoolers account for nearly 1 in 5 community college students | KQED","description":"Dual enrollment far exceeds the popularity of Advanced Placement courses.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Dual enrollment far exceeds the popularity of Advanced Placement courses."},"nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/62061/high-schoolers-account-for-nearly-1-in-5-community-college-students","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you think of a college student, you might imagine a young adult leaving home, moving into a dorm, navigating a campus and maybe attending a fraternity party. That’s an outdated image. We’ve written a lot about how older adults with jobs and children are a giant group on campus. But a more surprising species is spreading through the college registrar’s rolls: teenagers living at home, taking yellow buses to high school and maybe scrambling home before curfew.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The number of high schoolers taking college classes has been surging for more than two decades. In what is called dual enrollment, students simultaneously earn high school and college credits from a single class. These advanced college-level courses are no longer just for gifted students who have exhausted the high school course catalog. Now they’re a tool to encourage more Americans to enroll in college by giving them an early taste of post-secondary education and a head start with a few credits. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dual enrollment students were estimated at more than 1.4 million in the fall of 2022, and account for almost one out of five community college students. That’s according to estimates from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Some scholars believe the total number could be much higher, perhaps 2 million students, when spring 2023 course taking is included. Dual enrollees appear to far outnumber the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://reports.collegeboard.org/ap-program-results/class-of-2022\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1.1 million high school graduates in the class of 2022 who took at least one Advanced Placement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> exam.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s meteoric,” said Brian An, a sociologist at the University of Iowa. “When I first started working in dual enrollment research in the mid 2000s, it was nowhere near these numbers. If you had told me 10 years ago that 20% of all community college students would be dual enrollment, I would have said that’s crazy talk.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community colleges oversee roughly 70% of dual enrollments with four-year colleges running the remaining 30%. Students often don’t pay any college tuition for dual enrollment classes. In \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019176.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">most cases\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, high schoolers never step foot on a college campus; the class is taught in a high school classroom by a high school teacher. English composition and college algebra are popular.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment.jpg 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/enrollment-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of students 17 years old and under enrolled in a community college course increased sharply in the past 10 years. \u003ccite>(Source: Community College Research Center, January 2023)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students are flocking to these courses because they perceive that it’s easier to earn college credits through dual enrollment than through Advanced Placement, said University of Iowa’s An. With Advanced Placement, students have to score high enough on an exam to earn college credit. With dual enrollment, a passing grade is sufficient.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sharp growth in dual enrollment has raised a lot of questions about course content and whether students are really producing college-level work. John Fink, an expert in dual enrollment at the Community College Research Center, acknowledged that quality is uneven. That’s not surprising when 80% of high schools are now offering these courses and there’s decentralized oversight among thousands of colleges around the country. But colleges that oversee these courses are trying to improve quality, Fink said. (The Community College Research Center is a unit of Teachers College, Columbia University. The Hechinger Report is also an independent news organization based at Teachers College, but the two entities are not affiliated.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2.png 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-800x478.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-1020x609.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-160x96.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-768x458.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/07/image2-2-1536x917.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More high school students are taking dual enrollment classes, and fewer traditional students are attending community colleges. \u003ccite>(Source: Community College Research Center, January 2023)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite concerns about course rigor, research points to better outcomes for students. Between similar students with comparable grades and family backgrounds, the student who takes a dual enrollment class is more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college and earn a college degree, many studies have found. In 2017, the What Works Clearinghouse, a unit of the Department of Education that reviews education research, gave dual enrollment its stamp of approval with a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/EvidenceSnapshot/671\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strong level of evidence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In qualitative research interviews, students described how dual enrollment courses taught them how to take notes or study for a test, helping them feel more prepared for college. Much of the benefit may be in boosting a student’s confidence and soft skills, and not necessarily in teaching academic content, University of Iowa’s An explained.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A big downside to dual enrollment is that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cherp.utah.edu/_resources/documents/publications/research_priorities_for_advancing_equitable_dual_enrollment_policy_and_practice.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students of color are underrepresented\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That’s an ironic outcome given that advocates, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pushed the expansion of these programs to help promote college going and attainment among Black and Hispanic students. Only one fifth of high schools have managed to enroll Black and Hispanic students in dual enrollment classes at the same or higher rates as white students, Fink said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another reason for the rapid expansion of dual enrollment may be financial. Dual enrollment courses are money losers for many community colleges, according to Fink at the Community College Research Center. That’s because colleges receive a discounted per-pupil allotment for each high schooler who signs up. Each state funds dual enrollment differently, often through a combination of state and school district budgets. Sometimes families need to contribute too, but it tends to be a lot cheaper than a usual college course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But colleges can turn dual enrollment programs into a modest money maker when they serve more students, according to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/community-colleges-afford-dual-enrollment-discount.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 2023 analysis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the Community College Research Center. Once fixed costs are covered, each additional student means an increase in revenues. For example, adding an additional high school teacher to an existing instructor training program isn’t very costly and could open up dozens more student slots, each generating income that flows to the college.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reason that dual enrollments have become such a big slice of community colleges’ offerings is not only because more high school students are taking these courses, but also because fewer traditional students want to attend community colleges. When the pandemic hit in 2020, there were shocking double digit drops in enrollment at community colleges. Dual enrollment classes at many high schools temporarily shut down too, but they dramatically rebounded in 2022-23. Meanwhile, traditional students haven’t been returning to community colleges in large numbers, thanks to a strong job market. High school students even make up the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/the-reckoning-is-here-more-than-a-third-of-community-college-students-have-vanished/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">majority of students at 31 community colleges\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, my colleague Jon Marcus found.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Precise numbers on exactly how many high schoolers are taking dual enrollment classes are hard to come by. The best data is from the National Student Clearinghouse, which receives enrollment data from most colleges in the country. But colleges report only the ages of their students and not whether they have finished high school. The estimates for dual enrollees are based on students 17 years and under and cross-checked against high school records available to the National Student Clearinghouse. We should get a clearer picture next year when the Department of Education is expected to release a more accurate report on the numbers, broken down by race and ethnicity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-high-schoolers-account-for-nearly-1-out-of-every-5-community-college-students/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dual enrollment classes\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proof Points\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and other \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletters\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/62061/high-schoolers-account-for-nearly-1-in-5-community-college-students","authors":["byline_mindshift_62061"],"categories":["mindshift_21504","mindshift_21694"],"tags":["mindshift_912","mindshift_913","mindshift_21305","mindshift_20966","mindshift_21723","mindshift_68"],"featImg":"mindshift_62067","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61929":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61929","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61929","score":null,"sort":[1688053200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-racial-diversity-likely-to-suffer","title":"Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions; racial diversity likely to suffer","publishDate":1688053200,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions; racial diversity likely to suffer | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s top colleges are likely to enroll fewer Black, Latino, and Native American students after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges and universities essentially cannot consider race as a factor in the admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to use affirmative action to create more racially diverse campuses, and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing for the majority\u003c/a>, Chief Justice John Roberts said that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s race-conscious admissions programs had violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars discrimination, because they “lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bar will make it exceedingly difficult for colleges and universities to consider race as part of their admissions process going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts’ majority opinion did leave open a small window for how colleges could consider race in admissions. “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” the chief justice wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor described this as a meaningless concession — “nothing but an attempt to put lipstick on a pig.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Court’s opinion circumscribes universities’ ability to consider race in any form by meticulously gutting respondents’ asserted diversity interests,” wrote Sotomayor. “Yet, because the Court cannot escape the inevitable truth that race matters in students’ lives, it announces a false promise to save face and appear attuned to reality. No one is fooled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine states — including California, Florida, Michigan, and Washington — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/us/politics/affirmative-action-ban-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already ban affirmative action\u003c/a> at public colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision stems from \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-1199.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two\u003c/a> \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-707.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cases\u003c/a> that were brought before the court by Students for Fair Admissions, an organization headed by Edward Blum, who has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/affirmative-action-lawsuits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent years fighting affirmative action\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina over their race-conscious admissions policies, arguing that they were unfair and discriminatory. The group alleged that Harvard’s policies, in particular, discriminated against Asian American applicants. The universities countered that they needed to take race into account to build a diverse student body, which brings educational benefits to the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision has big implications for students looking to attend the nation’s most competitive colleges, which are more likely to consider race as a factor in admissions. But the ruling likely will have little effect on the vast majority of college students who attend less selective schools, such as community colleges, which accept most students who apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are three major ways the ruling is likely to affect students who are applying to college:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black, Latino, and Native students will be less likely to get into top colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at several selective colleges have said they expect the numbers of Black and Latino students, in particular, to decline if colleges are essentially no longer permitted to consider student race as part of a holistic admissions review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expert working on behalf of Harvard, for example, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/169941/20210225095533757_Students%20Appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated\u003c/a> that getting rid of race-conscious admissions would cause Black enrollment in Harvard’s freshman class to fall from 14% to 6%, and Hispanic enrollment to drop from 14% to 9%. White and Asian American enrollment, meanwhile, would grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from states that previously banned affirmative action also provide a look at what may happen nationwide. After California and Michigan got rid of affirmative action, the share of Black, Latino, and Indigenous students at several of the most selective colleges fell sharply. Those figures tended to tick back up with time, but never fully rebounded — and they still fail to represent the racial diversity of high school graduates in those states, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/22/metro/with-supreme-court-poised-eliminate-use-race-college-admissions-states-with-existing-bans-offer-sobering-view/?event=event12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Boston Globe reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When colleges become less racially diverse, students of color often feel the schools are less welcoming — which could further depress the number of Black and Latino students on campus. That matters because Black and Latino students are \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/upshot/elite-colleges-actual-value.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to benefit\u003c/a> from the social capital that comes from attending a top college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges in states that axed affirmative action have tried alternatives to create racially diverse classes. That includes accepting a certain percentage of top high school graduates, recruiting from high schools that enroll large shares of underrepresented students, and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/richard-kahlenberg-affirmative-action.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving preference to students from low-income families\u003c/a>. But \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/diversity-without-race/#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers\u003c/a> and many college officials say those methods don’t work as well as explicitly taking race into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no race-neutral alternative to being able to consider race,” Femi Ogundele, an official at the University of California, Berkeley, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-31/california-banned-affirmative-action-uc-struggles-for-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Los Angeles Times recently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, colleges may not want to take new steps to ensure racial diversity for fear of violating the Supreme Court’s latest ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people imagine that we’ll find creative ways of working around the court’s decision, like using an applicant’s ZIP code as a stand-in for their race. But we won’t,” \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/columbia-president-lee-c-bollinger-looks-back-two-remarkable-decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Lee Bollinger\u003c/a>, the outgoing president of Columbia University who was a defendant in a previous \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landmark Supreme Court case\u003c/a> that upheld affirmative action. “We can’t knowingly violate the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. We’ll have to abide by it, no matter how painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"HuI6WT\">Students, and their school counselors, will have to navigate a new college admissions terrain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s ruling will have the biggest effects on high-achieving high schoolers who are applying to highly selective colleges, as those institutions are more likely to use race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of colleges considered race in admissions to some degree, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nacacnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/soca2019_all.pdf?_ga=2.43022893.905831718.1682630032-703981455.1682630031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 survey\u003c/a> from the National Association for College Admission Counseling that was cited in the court case. But 60% of the most selective colleges — those that accept 4 in 10 applicants or less — considered an applicant’s race, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Race-Class-and-College-Access-Achieving-Diversity-in-a-Shifting-Legal-Landscape.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 survey\u003c/a> from the American Council on Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those colleges serve a small slice of the nation’s undergraduates. This fall, colleges that admitted half of their students or less enrolled just 10% of U.S. undergraduates, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those students, this ruling may change which colleges they apply to and what information they share on their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s left many school counselors and college coaches worried about whether they’ll have time to research and advise students on changing admissions policies. Many low-income students of color — whose school counselors tend to have higher student caseloads — won’t have someone to provide that kind of hands-on help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already a complicated job that’s underresourced,” said Austin Buchan, a senior vice president at College Possible, a nonprofit organization that helps students from low-income families apply to college. “And this is just not going to do us any favors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal essays, which often ask students about their identity, values, and how they’d contribute to campus life, are likely to be especially fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During both sets of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/21-707_9o6b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oral arguments\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/20-1199_g314.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several justices asked\u003c/a> whether students would still be permitted to talk about certain personal experiences, such as overcoming racial discrimination or taking pride in their family’s cultural traditions, if race could not be considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions said “culture, tradition, heritage are all not off limits for students to talk about and for universities to consider” so long as the college awarded credit for “something unique and individual in what they actually wrote, not race itself.” Some justices noted that distinction could be hard for colleges to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, some college access coaches and school counselors worry that students will avoid talking about anything that could hint at their race, even if it could enhance their application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students might self-censor,” said Marie Bigham, the executive director of ACCEPT, a nonprofit that advocates for racial equity in college admissions. “Racial identities and experiences are just so interwoven with our lives in the United States. How do you pull that apart effectively in a way that’s not going to be constantly scrutinized?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"kBebD1\">Some students of color may lower their college ambitions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School counselors and college coaches say Black and Latino students already hold off on applying to the nation’s top colleges, or worry they don’t deserve their spots when they get accepted. The latest Supreme Court ruling, they said, could cause more students to question their abilities and whether they want to pursue higher education — at a time when there’s already been a spike in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students skipping college\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s compounding a narrative that many students feel reinforced at each step of the process,” said Buchan, of College Possible. He worries the ruling will cause more students to think: “See, I told you higher ed isn’t for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research also supports the idea that student motivation suffers when affirmative action is off the table. Natalie Bau, an economics professor at UCLA, looked at what happened when Texas lifted its ban on considering race in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ay92xe71fyzop1/ABL_August2021.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She and her colleagues found\u003c/a> that Black and Latino high schoolers had better school attendance, higher SAT scores, higher grades, and applied to more colleges — and the effects were greatest for students with the highest test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thinking is “before it seemed too hard” to get into a more selective college, and “now it becomes attainable, so it makes sense to put in that extra effort,” Bau said. With a nationwide ban on affirmative action, Bau said, student motivation may slip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Underrepresented minority students might reduce their effort in high school and that might result in lower test scores, lower grades, lower attendance, and fewer applications to selective institutions,” Bau said. “That might make this under-application problem worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kalyn Belsha is a national education reporter based in Chicago. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities essentially cannot consider race as a factor in the admissions process. The ruling will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1688053356,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1799},"headData":{"title":"Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions; racial diversity likely to suffer | KQED","description":"The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to consider race in admissions and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to consider race in admissions and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education."},"nprByline":"Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61929/supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-racial-diversity-likely-to-suffer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s top colleges are likely to enroll fewer Black, Latino, and Native American students after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges and universities essentially cannot consider race as a factor in the admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling severely restricts colleges’ ability to use affirmative action to create more racially diverse campuses, and will likely curtail broader efforts to fight for racial equity in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing for the majority\u003c/a>, Chief Justice John Roberts said that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s race-conscious admissions programs had violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars discrimination, because they “lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bar will make it exceedingly difficult for colleges and universities to consider race as part of their admissions process going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts’ majority opinion did leave open a small window for how colleges could consider race in admissions. “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” the chief justice wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor described this as a meaningless concession — “nothing but an attempt to put lipstick on a pig.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Court’s opinion circumscribes universities’ ability to consider race in any form by meticulously gutting respondents’ asserted diversity interests,” wrote Sotomayor. “Yet, because the Court cannot escape the inevitable truth that race matters in students’ lives, it announces a false promise to save face and appear attuned to reality. No one is fooled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine states — including California, Florida, Michigan, and Washington — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/us/politics/affirmative-action-ban-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already ban affirmative action\u003c/a> at public colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision stems from \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-1199.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two\u003c/a> \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-707.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cases\u003c/a> that were brought before the court by Students for Fair Admissions, an organization headed by Edward Blum, who has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/affirmative-action-lawsuits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent years fighting affirmative action\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina over their race-conscious admissions policies, arguing that they were unfair and discriminatory. The group alleged that Harvard’s policies, in particular, discriminated against Asian American applicants. The universities countered that they needed to take race into account to build a diverse student body, which brings educational benefits to the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision has big implications for students looking to attend the nation’s most competitive colleges, which are more likely to consider race as a factor in admissions. But the ruling likely will have little effect on the vast majority of college students who attend less selective schools, such as community colleges, which accept most students who apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are three major ways the ruling is likely to affect students who are applying to college:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Black, Latino, and Native students will be less likely to get into top colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials at several selective colleges have said they expect the numbers of Black and Latino students, in particular, to decline if colleges are essentially no longer permitted to consider student race as part of a holistic admissions review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expert working on behalf of Harvard, for example, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/169941/20210225095533757_Students%20Appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated\u003c/a> that getting rid of race-conscious admissions would cause Black enrollment in Harvard’s freshman class to fall from 14% to 6%, and Hispanic enrollment to drop from 14% to 9%. White and Asian American enrollment, meanwhile, would grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from states that previously banned affirmative action also provide a look at what may happen nationwide. After California and Michigan got rid of affirmative action, the share of Black, Latino, and Indigenous students at several of the most selective colleges fell sharply. Those figures tended to tick back up with time, but never fully rebounded — and they still fail to represent the racial diversity of high school graduates in those states, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/22/metro/with-supreme-court-poised-eliminate-use-race-college-admissions-states-with-existing-bans-offer-sobering-view/?event=event12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Boston Globe reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When colleges become less racially diverse, students of color often feel the schools are less welcoming — which could further depress the number of Black and Latino students on campus. That matters because Black and Latino students are \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/upshot/elite-colleges-actual-value.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to benefit\u003c/a> from the social capital that comes from attending a top college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleges in states that axed affirmative action have tried alternatives to create racially diverse classes. That includes accepting a certain percentage of top high school graduates, recruiting from high schools that enroll large shares of underrepresented students, and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/richard-kahlenberg-affirmative-action.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving preference to students from low-income families\u003c/a>. But \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/diversity-without-race/#summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers\u003c/a> and many college officials say those methods don’t work as well as explicitly taking race into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no race-neutral alternative to being able to consider race,” Femi Ogundele, an official at the University of California, Berkeley, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-31/california-banned-affirmative-action-uc-struggles-for-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Los Angeles Times recently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, colleges may not want to take new steps to ensure racial diversity for fear of violating the Supreme Court’s latest ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people imagine that we’ll find creative ways of working around the court’s decision, like using an applicant’s ZIP code as a stand-in for their race. But we won’t,” \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/columbia-president-lee-c-bollinger-looks-back-two-remarkable-decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Lee Bollinger\u003c/a>, the outgoing president of Columbia University who was a defendant in a previous \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landmark Supreme Court case\u003c/a> that upheld affirmative action. “We can’t knowingly violate the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. We’ll have to abide by it, no matter how painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"HuI6WT\">Students, and their school counselors, will have to navigate a new college admissions terrain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s ruling will have the biggest effects on high-achieving high schoolers who are applying to highly selective colleges, as those institutions are more likely to use race as a factor in admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of colleges considered race in admissions to some degree, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nacacnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/soca2019_all.pdf?_ga=2.43022893.905831718.1682630032-703981455.1682630031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 survey\u003c/a> from the National Association for College Admission Counseling that was cited in the court case. But 60% of the most selective colleges — those that accept 4 in 10 applicants or less — considered an applicant’s race, according to a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Race-Class-and-College-Access-Achieving-Diversity-in-a-Shifting-Legal-Landscape.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 survey\u003c/a> from the American Council on Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those colleges serve a small slice of the nation’s undergraduates. This fall, colleges that admitted half of their students or less enrolled just 10% of U.S. undergraduates, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those students, this ruling may change which colleges they apply to and what information they share on their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s left many school counselors and college coaches worried about whether they’ll have time to research and advise students on changing admissions policies. Many low-income students of color — whose school counselors tend to have higher student caseloads — won’t have someone to provide that kind of hands-on help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s already a complicated job that’s underresourced,” said Austin Buchan, a senior vice president at College Possible, a nonprofit organization that helps students from low-income families apply to college. “And this is just not going to do us any favors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal essays, which often ask students about their identity, values, and how they’d contribute to campus life, are likely to be especially fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During both sets of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/21-707_9o6b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oral arguments\u003c/a>, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2022/20-1199_g314.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several justices asked\u003c/a> whether students would still be permitted to talk about certain personal experiences, such as overcoming racial discrimination or taking pride in their family’s cultural traditions, if race could not be considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Students for Fair Admissions said “culture, tradition, heritage are all not off limits for students to talk about and for universities to consider” so long as the college awarded credit for “something unique and individual in what they actually wrote, not race itself.” Some justices noted that distinction could be hard for colleges to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, some college access coaches and school counselors worry that students will avoid talking about anything that could hint at their race, even if it could enhance their application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students might self-censor,” said Marie Bigham, the executive director of ACCEPT, a nonprofit that advocates for racial equity in college admissions. “Racial identities and experiences are just so interwoven with our lives in the United States. How do you pull that apart effectively in a way that’s not going to be constantly scrutinized?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"kBebD1\">Some students of color may lower their college ambitions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>School counselors and college coaches say Black and Latino students already hold off on applying to the nation’s top colleges, or worry they don’t deserve their spots when they get accepted. The latest Supreme Court ruling, they said, could cause more students to question their abilities and whether they want to pursue higher education — at a time when there’s already been a spike in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students skipping college\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s compounding a narrative that many students feel reinforced at each step of the process,” said Buchan, of College Possible. He worries the ruling will cause more students to think: “See, I told you higher ed isn’t for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research also supports the idea that student motivation suffers when affirmative action is off the table. Natalie Bau, an economics professor at UCLA, looked at what happened when Texas lifted its ban on considering race in college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ay92xe71fyzop1/ABL_August2021.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She and her colleagues found\u003c/a> that Black and Latino high schoolers had better school attendance, higher SAT scores, higher grades, and applied to more colleges — and the effects were greatest for students with the highest test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thinking is “before it seemed too hard” to get into a more selective college, and “now it becomes attainable, so it makes sense to put in that extra effort,” Bau said. With a nationwide ban on affirmative action, Bau said, student motivation may slip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Underrepresented minority students might reduce their effort in high school and that might result in lower test scores, lower grades, lower attendance, and fewer applications to selective institutions,” Bau said. “That might make this under-application problem worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kalyn Belsha is a national education reporter based in Chicago. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>kbelsha@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/29/23778335/supreme-court-affirmative-action-case-college-admissions-student-effects\" rel=\"canonical\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61929/supreme-court-rules-against-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-racial-diversity-likely-to-suffer","authors":["byline_mindshift_61929"],"categories":["mindshift_21694"],"tags":["mindshift_21696","mindshift_21635","mindshift_21261","mindshift_21189","mindshift_20966","mindshift_21699","mindshift_20610","mindshift_21695","mindshift_21284","mindshift_21700","mindshift_21698","mindshift_21697"],"featImg":"mindshift_61930","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61606":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61606","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61606","score":null,"sort":[1684144842000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inside-the-perplexing-study-thats-inspired-college-to-drop-remedial-math","title":"Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math","publishDate":1684144842,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775716304605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> $1 billion \u003c/a>annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. “Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She suspected they weren’t. More than \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2016/2016405.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates\u003c/a> in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment. She compared remedial math classes to the alternative of letting ill-prepared students proceed straight to a college course accompanied by extra help. The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/ensuring-all-students-benefit-from-landmark-community-college-reform/#:~:text=What%20does%20the%20new%20law,actually%20enroll%20in%20those%20courses.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> California lawmakers in 2017\u003c/a> to start phasing out remedial education in their state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the seven years of Logue’s study, which took place at three of CUNY’s seven two-year community colleges, the results kept getting better. Students who started with college math were successfully passing the course at a fraction of the cost of remediation, getting their math requirements out of the way, earning their degrees faster and earning thousands more in the labor market. Many public colleges, from Nevada and Colorado to Connecticut and Tennessee, have followed suit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecs.org/50-state-comparison-developmental-education-policies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phasing out remedial ed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other \u003ca href=\"https://completecollege.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CCA_NoRoomForDoubt_CorequisiteSupport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data analyses\u003c/a> have also shown benefits to bypassing remedial education, but this was one of the only real-life experiments, like a clinical trial, and so it carried a lot of weight. Most importantly, it studied math, often an insurmountable requirement for many students to complete their college degrees. This study has arguably been one of the most influential attempts to use experimental evidence to change how higher education operates and is now affecting the lives of millions of college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great feeling of satisfaction,” said Logue, now a research professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center, “because it isn’t just CUNY. It’s across the country, using this really great evidence to help make things better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third and final chapter of this long-term study was \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X221138848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published in the January/February 2023 issue of the journal Educational Researcher\u003c/a>, and as I pored over this body of research, I became confused about what it proved. The study could be seen as evidence against remedial education, but it could equally be seen as evidence for letting college students meet their math requirements without taking algebra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confusion stems from the study design. Instead of testing remedial versus college algebra, which would be a direct test of remedial education, the study compared remedial algebra to college statistics, a sort of apples to oranges comparison. In the experiment, CUNY randomly assigned almost 300 students who failed the algebra portion of a math placement test to an introductory statistics course. In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Researchers then compared what happened to these stats students with a similar group of almost 300 students who were sent to remedial algebra, the traditional first step for students who fail the algebra subtest. Logue had the same teachers teach sections of both courses – remedial algebra and college stats – so that no one could argue instructional quality was different. Also, only students who struggled with algebra, but not arithmetic, were part of this experiment; students with more severe math difficulties, as measured by the freshman placement test, weren’t asked to attempt the college course and were excluded from the control group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all measures, the students who went straight to college stats did better. More than half of the students who bypassed remedial algebra passed the stats class and earned college credit. Ultimately, these students finished their degrees a lot faster than those who started off in remedial algebra. They were 50 percent more likely to complete a two-year associate’s degree within three years and, according to the latest chapter of this seven-year study, they were twice as likely to transfer to a four-year institution and complete a bachelor’s degree within five years. Seven years after bypassing remedial ed, students were earning $4,600 more a year in the workplace, on average, than those who started in remedial math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we can say is, for students who have been assigned to remediation, put them into statistics with extra help, and you will get a good result,” said Logue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That switch from algebra to stats is a big one for a lot of students,” said Lindsay Daugherty, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who has studied remedial education and efforts to reform it. She said all the other studies that have looked at replacing remedial classes with college courses plus extra support haven’t produced better graduation rates. “This CUNY study is the only one,” said Daugherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only other randomized control trial of remedial education is Daugherty’s Texas experiment to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2021.1932000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replace remedial English courses\u003c/a> with college courses plus extra support. Going straight to college courses helped more students earn college credits in English but that didn’t help them get through college. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the way that we did it before with these standalone [remedial] courses was not helping students, and most states and colleges have made a change and are moving towards corequisites,” said Daugherty. “But the evidence does not suggest that these corequisite courses are the magic potion that is going to change completion and persistence. It’s going to take a lot more and a lot of other support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we don’t know from this study is how to help students who are behind in math learn college algebra, a course that is similar to intermediate high school algebra, which remains a requirement for many business, health and engineering majors. All the students in this landmark CUNY study had intended to major in non-STEM fields that didn’t require algebra, such as criminal justice and the humanities, and for which college statistics would fulfill their math requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logue originally sought to conduct a simpler, cleaner study of only algebra, comparing the remedial prerequisite to the college course plus tutoring support. But she ran into problems with the algebra faculty. (There were too many different versions of college algebra for different majors and across different colleges at CUNY, each covering different topics, she said, and it was impossible to test one version of a basic college algebra course.) Meanwhile, the statistics department was open to the experiment and their introductory courses were very similar from professor to professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear from this study how essential the weekly tutoring sessions were to helping students pass the statistics course. The experiment didn’t test whether students could pass the normal college stats class without peer tutoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that the switch from remedial algebra to college stats didn’t seem to harm anyone. Indeed, the students in the statistics group were just as likely to complete advanced math courses, along the algebra-to-calculus track, as students who started with remedial algebra, according to co-author Daniel Douglas, director of social science research at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, who led the data analysis. In the final number crunching, the stats students were just as likely to complete math-intensive degrees that required college algebra. Starting with stats didn’t thwart students from changing their minds about their majors and returning to an algebra-to-calculus track, Douglas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news is that a lot of community college students still fell through the cracks. Although there was a 50 percent boost to the number of students who completed an associate’s degree within three years, only a quarter of the statistics students hit this milestone. Almost three-quarters didn’t. And though bypassing math remediation and heading straight to college stats led to a 100 percent increase in the number of bachelor’s degrees, only 14 percent of the statistics students earned a four-year degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main benefit of allowing students to bypass remedial classes is speed, according to Douglas. Over the course of seven years, the students who started in remedial algebra eventually caught up and hit many of the same milestones as the students who started with statistics. “At the end of our data collection in the fall of 2020, their degree completion – the elementary algebra group and the stats group – they’re not that different,” said Douglas. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CUNY spokesperson told me that their college system stopped placing new students into remedial classes in the fall of 2022. For students who are behind in math, there are now “corequisite” math classes, where the extra support is more costly and differs from the tutoring that was tested in this study I am writing about here. Now the college-level course is two hours longer each week, blurring the lines between regular instruction and extra help support, and entirely taught by instructors, not peer tutors. Many instructors who used to teach remedial courses now teach these corequisite courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students who are significantly behind — struggling not only in algebra, but also in basic arithmetic — CUNY operates a separate pre-college program, called CUNY Start, where students take only remedial classes. These students haven’t yet matriculated at the college and don’t pay tuition, and so CUNY doesn’t count them as students. And the numbers of students in this \u003ca href=\"https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunystart/resources/how-are-we-doing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-college remedial program had been swelling before the pandemic.\u003c/a>*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunystart/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2021/03/CUNYStartWorkingpaper_rev.pdf\">Students did better in these newer pre-college remedial classes\u003c/a> than those who took traditional remedial classes, according to a separate 2021 study that Logue was also involved in. But these students aren’t necessarily doing better in college and earning more credits, unless they get a lot more advising and counseling support during their college years. Helping more young adults get through college isn’t going to be easy or cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>*Clarification: This paragraph has been modified to reflect that the CUNY Start program dates to 2009 and the number of students in it grew during the 2010s. Enrollment in CUNY Start has decreased in recent years, mirroring the general drop in enrollment at community colleges. An earlier version implied that the CUNY Start program was new and that the number of students in it is still increasing. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-inside-the-perplexing-study-thats-inspired-college-to-drop-remedial-math/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">remedial math in college\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proof Points\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and other \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletters\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A study found that skipping remedial math classes and going straight into a college course can actually help students graduate more often and make more money after graduation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684275524,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1964},"headData":{"title":"Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math | KQED","description":"A study found that skipping remedial math classes and going straight into a college course can actually help students graduate more often and make more money after graduation.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"A study found that skipping remedial math classes and going straight into a college course can actually help students graduate more often and make more money after graduation."},"nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61606/inside-the-perplexing-study-thats-inspired-college-to-drop-remedial-math","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775716304605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> $1 billion \u003c/a>annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. “Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She suspected they weren’t. More than \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2016/2016405.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates\u003c/a> in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment. She compared remedial math classes to the alternative of letting ill-prepared students proceed straight to a college course accompanied by extra help. The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/ensuring-all-students-benefit-from-landmark-community-college-reform/#:~:text=What%20does%20the%20new%20law,actually%20enroll%20in%20those%20courses.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> California lawmakers in 2017\u003c/a> to start phasing out remedial education in their state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the seven years of Logue’s study, which took place at three of CUNY’s seven two-year community colleges, the results kept getting better. Students who started with college math were successfully passing the course at a fraction of the cost of remediation, getting their math requirements out of the way, earning their degrees faster and earning thousands more in the labor market. Many public colleges, from Nevada and Colorado to Connecticut and Tennessee, have followed suit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecs.org/50-state-comparison-developmental-education-policies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phasing out remedial ed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other \u003ca href=\"https://completecollege.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CCA_NoRoomForDoubt_CorequisiteSupport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data analyses\u003c/a> have also shown benefits to bypassing remedial education, but this was one of the only real-life experiments, like a clinical trial, and so it carried a lot of weight. Most importantly, it studied math, often an insurmountable requirement for many students to complete their college degrees. This study has arguably been one of the most influential attempts to use experimental evidence to change how higher education operates and is now affecting the lives of millions of college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great feeling of satisfaction,” said Logue, now a research professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center, “because it isn’t just CUNY. It’s across the country, using this really great evidence to help make things better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third and final chapter of this long-term study was \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X221138848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published in the January/February 2023 issue of the journal Educational Researcher\u003c/a>, and as I pored over this body of research, I became confused about what it proved. The study could be seen as evidence against remedial education, but it could equally be seen as evidence for letting college students meet their math requirements without taking algebra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confusion stems from the study design. Instead of testing remedial versus college algebra, which would be a direct test of remedial education, the study compared remedial algebra to college statistics, a sort of apples to oranges comparison. In the experiment, CUNY randomly assigned almost 300 students who failed the algebra portion of a math placement test to an introductory statistics course. In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Researchers then compared what happened to these stats students with a similar group of almost 300 students who were sent to remedial algebra, the traditional first step for students who fail the algebra subtest. Logue had the same teachers teach sections of both courses – remedial algebra and college stats – so that no one could argue instructional quality was different. Also, only students who struggled with algebra, but not arithmetic, were part of this experiment; students with more severe math difficulties, as measured by the freshman placement test, weren’t asked to attempt the college course and were excluded from the control group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all measures, the students who went straight to college stats did better. More than half of the students who bypassed remedial algebra passed the stats class and earned college credit. Ultimately, these students finished their degrees a lot faster than those who started off in remedial algebra. They were 50 percent more likely to complete a two-year associate’s degree within three years and, according to the latest chapter of this seven-year study, they were twice as likely to transfer to a four-year institution and complete a bachelor’s degree within five years. Seven years after bypassing remedial ed, students were earning $4,600 more a year in the workplace, on average, than those who started in remedial math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we can say is, for students who have been assigned to remediation, put them into statistics with extra help, and you will get a good result,” said Logue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That switch from algebra to stats is a big one for a lot of students,” said Lindsay Daugherty, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who has studied remedial education and efforts to reform it. She said all the other studies that have looked at replacing remedial classes with college courses plus extra support haven’t produced better graduation rates. “This CUNY study is the only one,” said Daugherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only other randomized control trial of remedial education is Daugherty’s Texas experiment to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2021.1932000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replace remedial English courses\u003c/a> with college courses plus extra support. Going straight to college courses helped more students earn college credits in English but that didn’t help them get through college. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the way that we did it before with these standalone [remedial] courses was not helping students, and most states and colleges have made a change and are moving towards corequisites,” said Daugherty. “But the evidence does not suggest that these corequisite courses are the magic potion that is going to change completion and persistence. It’s going to take a lot more and a lot of other support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we don’t know from this study is how to help students who are behind in math learn college algebra, a course that is similar to intermediate high school algebra, which remains a requirement for many business, health and engineering majors. All the students in this landmark CUNY study had intended to major in non-STEM fields that didn’t require algebra, such as criminal justice and the humanities, and for which college statistics would fulfill their math requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logue originally sought to conduct a simpler, cleaner study of only algebra, comparing the remedial prerequisite to the college course plus tutoring support. But she ran into problems with the algebra faculty. (There were too many different versions of college algebra for different majors and across different colleges at CUNY, each covering different topics, she said, and it was impossible to test one version of a basic college algebra course.) Meanwhile, the statistics department was open to the experiment and their introductory courses were very similar from professor to professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear from this study how essential the weekly tutoring sessions were to helping students pass the statistics course. The experiment didn’t test whether students could pass the normal college stats class without peer tutoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that the switch from remedial algebra to college stats didn’t seem to harm anyone. Indeed, the students in the statistics group were just as likely to complete advanced math courses, along the algebra-to-calculus track, as students who started with remedial algebra, according to co-author Daniel Douglas, director of social science research at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, who led the data analysis. In the final number crunching, the stats students were just as likely to complete math-intensive degrees that required college algebra. Starting with stats didn’t thwart students from changing their minds about their majors and returning to an algebra-to-calculus track, Douglas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news is that a lot of community college students still fell through the cracks. Although there was a 50 percent boost to the number of students who completed an associate’s degree within three years, only a quarter of the statistics students hit this milestone. Almost three-quarters didn’t. And though bypassing math remediation and heading straight to college stats led to a 100 percent increase in the number of bachelor’s degrees, only 14 percent of the statistics students earned a four-year degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main benefit of allowing students to bypass remedial classes is speed, according to Douglas. Over the course of seven years, the students who started in remedial algebra eventually caught up and hit many of the same milestones as the students who started with statistics. “At the end of our data collection in the fall of 2020, their degree completion – the elementary algebra group and the stats group – they’re not that different,” said Douglas. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CUNY spokesperson told me that their college system stopped placing new students into remedial classes in the fall of 2022. For students who are behind in math, there are now “corequisite” math classes, where the extra support is more costly and differs from the tutoring that was tested in this study I am writing about here. Now the college-level course is two hours longer each week, blurring the lines between regular instruction and extra help support, and entirely taught by instructors, not peer tutors. Many instructors who used to teach remedial courses now teach these corequisite courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For students who are significantly behind — struggling not only in algebra, but also in basic arithmetic — CUNY operates a separate pre-college program, called CUNY Start, where students take only remedial classes. These students haven’t yet matriculated at the college and don’t pay tuition, and so CUNY doesn’t count them as students. And the numbers of students in this \u003ca href=\"https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunystart/resources/how-are-we-doing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-college remedial program had been swelling before the pandemic.\u003c/a>*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunystart/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2021/03/CUNYStartWorkingpaper_rev.pdf\">Students did better in these newer pre-college remedial classes\u003c/a> than those who took traditional remedial classes, according to a separate 2021 study that Logue was also involved in. But these students aren’t necessarily doing better in college and earning more credits, unless they get a lot more advising and counseling support during their college years. Helping more young adults get through college isn’t going to be easy or cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>*Clarification: This paragraph has been modified to reflect that the CUNY Start program dates to 2009 and the number of students in it grew during the 2010s. Enrollment in CUNY Start has decreased in recent years, mirroring the general drop in enrollment at community colleges. An earlier version implied that the CUNY Start program was new and that the number of students in it is still increasing. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-inside-the-perplexing-study-thats-inspired-college-to-drop-remedial-math/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">remedial math in college\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proof Points\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and other \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletters\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61606/inside-the-perplexing-study-thats-inspired-college-to-drop-remedial-math","authors":["byline_mindshift_61606"],"categories":["mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_276","mindshift_21261","mindshift_20966","mindshift_68","mindshift_392","mindshift_381","mindshift_47","mindshift_391"],"featImg":"mindshift_61626","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_61134":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_61134","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"61134","score":null,"sort":[1678100432000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-a-community-college-graduate","title":"How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?","publishDate":1678100432,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community colleges say they can’t help the neediest students get through college successfully without more funding. But these institutions, which educate \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/ccrc-community-college-fact-sheets-policy-briefs-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 million students a year or 44% of all undergraduates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, have a terrible track record; fewer than half their students end up earning degrees. Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. And state lawmakers aren’t keen to write community colleges blank checks without accountability. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The problem is that no one really knows how much it costs to educate a community college student, or exactly how much more should be spent on the neediest ones, from young adults who are the first in their families to go to college, known as first-generation students, to older adults who are juggling a job and children of their own along with school, often called “nontraditional” students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A first attempt at finding an answer was the publication of a paper in October 2022 that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/Products/Region/southwest/Publication/100875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">examined the costs of Texas community colleges\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The analysis was conducted for the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, by a team of researchers from the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research organization, and education finance specialists from Rutgers University and the University of Tennessee. \u003ci>(T\u003c/i>\u003ci>he American Institutes for Research is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.*)\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team applied the same cost analysis used in K-12 education to the community college context. In K-12 education, cost modeling helps states design per-pupil funding formulas that give more weight to English language learners, low-income students and students with disabilities. The idea is to give needier students more resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the Texas analysis of six years of student records across all 50 community colleges, the researchers noticed that two categories – first-generation students and students older than 24 – were the least likely to hit various academic milestones, such as passing remedial courses, completing the first 15-credit semester hours, or earning a degree. At the same time, the researchers noticed that Texas community colleges were spending more on these students. Colleges that serve higher percentages of at-risk students had higher per-pupil expenditures than colleges that serve less needy students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Funding is progressive, but it’s not progressive enough” to provide an equal opportunity for all students, said Jesse Levin, an economist at the American Institutes for Research and lead author of the study. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the researchers’ cost modeling, it costs more than twice as much to achieve statewide average outcomes for a first-generation or older student than for a student without extra needs. Students from low-income households and English learners cost 19 to 31% more. But high school students who earn dual credits at community colleges are actually 16% cheaper to educate. That’s because dual-credit courses cost less to administer and high school students need fewer support services from local colleges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This extra funding that the researchers suggest for needier students doesn’t guarantee that they’ll all end up with a college degree. But it might make it more likely that needier students could achieve average statewide outcomes at community colleges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Texas, the average community college student racks up a little more than two and a quarter success points, a metric that the state uses to award performance-based funding to colleges, which receive about 12% of their state funding this way. (Total state funding accounts for less than \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/09/texas-community-college-funding/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">25% of community college revenues\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Texas with the rest coming from local property taxes and student tuition.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earning a degree generates two success points, but students can rack up additional points along the way, including earning one point for passing a first college level course in math, one point for completing the first 15 credit hours, another point for completing 30 credits, and other measures of progress. (See \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/regions/southwest/pdf/REL_2023142_appendices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Table 1A in the appendix\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for a list of success points.) A student who completes every milestone on the road to earning a degree could conceivably rack up eight points, so an average of two points is not a very high bar. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless, it can be expensive for many students to reach that standard. First-generation students made up half of Texas’s 750,000 community college students between the academic years 2014-15 and 2019-20. And it would cost $14,460 for a first generation college student who attends a small college to have the same opportunity to earn success points. That is more than three times the $4,537 that it would cost to educate a student with no extra needs attending a large community college to achieve statewide average outcomes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The colleges in Texas that serve the highest shares of first-generation college students actually spent $10,523 per full-time equivalent student, which was $1,475 less than the researchers’ estimated cost of $11,998. By contrast, the colleges that serve the fewest first-generation students spent less per student ($9,980) but the researchers said their estimated cost for an adequate education for these students was $10,385. That’s a much smaller $405 funding gap. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The researchers also developed a simulation tool to allow community colleges and policymakers to tweak assumptions and come up with their own cost estimates. (There is no public link for this tool, but it is available upon request from relsouthwest@air.org.**)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s worth emphasizing that these costs have nothing to do with an individual student’s costs, such as tuition and fees, or the financial aid and loans students receive. These are the estimated expenditures that a college would have to allocate for faculty and support services in order to level the playing field between the haves and have-nots.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s important to note that this is not an analysis of which support services are effective. It’s also not a bottom-up analysis of how much academic counseling each student needs and how much that costs. Instead, it is based on actual spending throughout Texas’s 50 community colleges over the six academic years from 2014-15 to 2019-20. The researchers calculated how much colleges spent per academic outcome (as measured by Texas’s success points) on their 750,000 students. Then they computed how spending per academic outcome varied for different types of students, based on how much harder it is for disadvantaged students to hit milestones. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional cost adjustments were made for different kinds of institutions. Colleges in big cities have higher real estate prices and faculty salaries. Smaller colleges are more expensive to run because there are fewer economies of scale. For example, a bursar’s office that serves 10,000 students is cheaper per student to run than one that serves 1,000 students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cost functions like these are often criticized for being “black boxes” because it’s hard to understand how researchers are using mathematical techniques to put a dollar total on how much it costs to reach an academic goal. And there’s no guarantee that if you gave colleges this extra money that they would actually succeed in raising the academic outcomes of first-generation and older students. Some challenges – juggling work, school and parenting – cannot be easily solved, even with unlimited money.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless, Kate Shaw, a senior adviser at HCM Strategists, a consulting firm that works with schools and colleges, described this first attempt at community college cost analysis as a “game changer” at a January 2023 seminar on higher education by the Education Writers Association. If policymakers accept these cost analyses, it could give colleges more incentive to serve the neediest students. But we also need to know how to spend the money wisely and the most cost-effective ways to help students who need more support get through college quickly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-a-community-college-graduate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">community college costs\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>* An earlier version of this story omitted the disclosure that the American Institutes for Research is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>** An earlier version of this story directed readers to a different e-mail address. Because of the number of requests, the American Institutes for Research asked that we redirect readers to a new address.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An analysis conducted for the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, attempts to find out how much it costs to educate a community college student, who comprise 44% of U.S. undergraduates.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1678475906,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1444},"headData":{"title":"How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate? | KQED","description":"New research applies the same cost analysis used in K-12 education to the community college context.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/61134/how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-a-community-college-graduate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community colleges say they can’t help the neediest students get through college successfully without more funding. But these institutions, which educate \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/ccrc-community-college-fact-sheets-policy-briefs-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 million students a year or 44% of all undergraduates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, have a terrible track record; fewer than half their students end up earning degrees. Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. And state lawmakers aren’t keen to write community colleges blank checks without accountability. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The problem is that no one really knows how much it costs to educate a community college student, or exactly how much more should be spent on the neediest ones, from young adults who are the first in their families to go to college, known as first-generation students, to older adults who are juggling a job and children of their own along with school, often called “nontraditional” students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A first attempt at finding an answer was the publication of a paper in October 2022 that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/Products/Region/southwest/Publication/100875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">examined the costs of Texas community colleges\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The analysis was conducted for the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, by a team of researchers from the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research organization, and education finance specialists from Rutgers University and the University of Tennessee. \u003ci>(T\u003c/i>\u003ci>he American Institutes for Research is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.*)\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team applied the same cost analysis used in K-12 education to the community college context. In K-12 education, cost modeling helps states design per-pupil funding formulas that give more weight to English language learners, low-income students and students with disabilities. The idea is to give needier students more resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the Texas analysis of six years of student records across all 50 community colleges, the researchers noticed that two categories – first-generation students and students older than 24 – were the least likely to hit various academic milestones, such as passing remedial courses, completing the first 15-credit semester hours, or earning a degree. At the same time, the researchers noticed that Texas community colleges were spending more on these students. Colleges that serve higher percentages of at-risk students had higher per-pupil expenditures than colleges that serve less needy students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Funding is progressive, but it’s not progressive enough” to provide an equal opportunity for all students, said Jesse Levin, an economist at the American Institutes for Research and lead author of the study. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the researchers’ cost modeling, it costs more than twice as much to achieve statewide average outcomes for a first-generation or older student than for a student without extra needs. Students from low-income households and English learners cost 19 to 31% more. But high school students who earn dual credits at community colleges are actually 16% cheaper to educate. That’s because dual-credit courses cost less to administer and high school students need fewer support services from local colleges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This extra funding that the researchers suggest for needier students doesn’t guarantee that they’ll all end up with a college degree. But it might make it more likely that needier students could achieve average statewide outcomes at community colleges.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Texas, the average community college student racks up a little more than two and a quarter success points, a metric that the state uses to award performance-based funding to colleges, which receive about 12% of their state funding this way. (Total state funding accounts for less than \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/09/texas-community-college-funding/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">25% of community college revenues\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Texas with the rest coming from local property taxes and student tuition.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earning a degree generates two success points, but students can rack up additional points along the way, including earning one point for passing a first college level course in math, one point for completing the first 15 credit hours, another point for completing 30 credits, and other measures of progress. (See \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/regions/southwest/pdf/REL_2023142_appendices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Table 1A in the appendix\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for a list of success points.) A student who completes every milestone on the road to earning a degree could conceivably rack up eight points, so an average of two points is not a very high bar. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless, it can be expensive for many students to reach that standard. First-generation students made up half of Texas’s 750,000 community college students between the academic years 2014-15 and 2019-20. And it would cost $14,460 for a first generation college student who attends a small college to have the same opportunity to earn success points. That is more than three times the $4,537 that it would cost to educate a student with no extra needs attending a large community college to achieve statewide average outcomes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The colleges in Texas that serve the highest shares of first-generation college students actually spent $10,523 per full-time equivalent student, which was $1,475 less than the researchers’ estimated cost of $11,998. By contrast, the colleges that serve the fewest first-generation students spent less per student ($9,980) but the researchers said their estimated cost for an adequate education for these students was $10,385. That’s a much smaller $405 funding gap. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The researchers also developed a simulation tool to allow community colleges and policymakers to tweak assumptions and come up with their own cost estimates. (There is no public link for this tool, but it is available upon request from relsouthwest@air.org.**)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s worth emphasizing that these costs have nothing to do with an individual student’s costs, such as tuition and fees, or the financial aid and loans students receive. These are the estimated expenditures that a college would have to allocate for faculty and support services in order to level the playing field between the haves and have-nots.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s important to note that this is not an analysis of which support services are effective. It’s also not a bottom-up analysis of how much academic counseling each student needs and how much that costs. Instead, it is based on actual spending throughout Texas’s 50 community colleges over the six academic years from 2014-15 to 2019-20. The researchers calculated how much colleges spent per academic outcome (as measured by Texas’s success points) on their 750,000 students. Then they computed how spending per academic outcome varied for different types of students, based on how much harder it is for disadvantaged students to hit milestones. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional cost adjustments were made for different kinds of institutions. Colleges in big cities have higher real estate prices and faculty salaries. Smaller colleges are more expensive to run because there are fewer economies of scale. For example, a bursar’s office that serves 10,000 students is cheaper per student to run than one that serves 1,000 students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cost functions like these are often criticized for being “black boxes” because it’s hard to understand how researchers are using mathematical techniques to put a dollar total on how much it costs to reach an academic goal. And there’s no guarantee that if you gave colleges this extra money that they would actually succeed in raising the academic outcomes of first-generation and older students. Some challenges – juggling work, school and parenting – cannot be easily solved, even with unlimited money.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless, Kate Shaw, a senior adviser at HCM Strategists, a consulting firm that works with schools and colleges, described this first attempt at community college cost analysis as a “game changer” at a January 2023 seminar on higher education by the Education Writers Association. If policymakers accept these cost analyses, it could give colleges more incentive to serve the neediest students. But we also need to know how to spend the money wisely and the most cost-effective ways to help students who need more support get through college quickly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-a-community-college-graduate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">community college costs\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hechinger newsletter\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>* An earlier version of this story omitted the disclosure that the American Institutes for Research is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>** An earlier version of this story directed readers to a different e-mail address. Because of the number of requests, the American Institutes for Research asked that we redirect readers to a new address.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/61134/how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-a-community-college-graduate","authors":["byline_mindshift_61134"],"categories":["mindshift_21504"],"tags":["mindshift_20966","mindshift_21310","mindshift_68"],"featImg":"mindshift_61136","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60607":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60607","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60607","score":null,"sort":[1671447647000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"talk-now-how-community-colleges-are-using-teletherapy-to-transform-student-mental-health-services","title":"Talk now: How community colleges are using teletherapy to transform student mental health services","publishDate":1671447647,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 4 a.m. one day early in her freshman year, a student at Solano Community College in Fairfield, California, reached for her phone. In her mind, everything felt like it was piling up — financial worries, academic stress and a relationship that had spun out of control. That night, she was feeling so anxious, she needed to talk to somebody right away. (The student’s name is not being used to protect her privacy. Another student in this story will be identified by first name only.)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With her bedroom door closed so her parents wouldn’t hear, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the student \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opened an app she’d heard about on campus, one that gave students free access to a trained therapist for emergencies, anytime day or night. With her heart racing, she pressed a button in the app that said “TalkNow.” Within five minutes, she was connected to a therapist who asked if she was thinking of harming herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The student responded “no” but still felt like she was having “personal mental warfare” inside her own mind. She’d been struggling with her mental health for years — at one point, her depression became so debilitating she considered dropping out of high school. She never asked her parents to see a therapist; she didn’t want to burden them financially and felt they wouldn’t approve of her seeking therapy. The app made seeking help private and fast.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In their 30-minute session, the therapist gave her some coping tools. More than anything, it helped to talk to someone. “It felt better to be heard instead of silence, when I truly needed someone to talk to the most,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colleges are making \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/10/mental-health-campus-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sweeping changes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to how mental health support is delivered to students on campus, with teletherapy — in which patients receive mental health services via phone, text or video call — at the top of the list. Teletherapy \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/can-teletherapy-companies-ease-the-campus-mental-health-crisis?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spread to prominence during the pandemic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially for colleges that moved online while \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/well/2022/07/12/mental-health-crisis-college-schools-unprepared/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">youth mental health problems like anxiety and depression skyrocketed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Tech companies like Uwill, Bettermynd and TimelyCare — provider of the blue-button “TalkNow” 24/7 crisis line — partner with colleges and universities to offer students mental health services beyond the 9-to-5 schedule of the counseling center, focusing instead on students’ convenience, and often for no cost to the student. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While research on teletherapy is still in its early stages, experts agree that the service has great potential especially for community college students, who are often low-income and under- or uninsured and lack access to mental health care. While many schools are still in their first or second years of offering teletherapy, community college administrators interviewed for this story agreed that the technology has been a game-changer for students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For us, it’s a retention effort,” said Emily Stone, Dean of counseling and student success programs at Diablo Valley Community College in Pleasant Hill, California. Pointing to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html#:~:text=There%20are%20five%20levels%20in,esteem%2C%20and%20self%2Dactualization.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maslow’s hierarchy of needs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the research-backed idea that students who are mentally unwell can’t learn, she said, “Our well-being, our mental health, are all foundational for a student being able to show up to class, be productive and be successful.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For community colleges, a different mental health crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most colleges and universities were already seeing a climb in mental health issues among students before the pandemic made them considerably worse. According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032722002774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healthy Minds survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of campuses across the country, by 2021 more than 60% of college students met criteria for at least one mental health problem, with the most common being anxiety, depression and suicidality. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet mental health challenges look slightly different for the nation’s roughly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/community-college-faqs.html#:~:text=Overall%2C%2044%25%20of%20undergraduates%20were,small%20numbers%20of%20bachelor's%20degrees.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">4.2 million community college students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who constitute about a third or more of all undergraduates. According to a 2021 national analysis, community college students ages 18-22 had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33657842/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">significantly higher prevalence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of anxiety and depression than their four-year undergraduate peers and at the same time were much less likely to seek treatment — especially those from historically marginalized backgrounds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For community college students, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/community-college-faqs.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than a third of whom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are low-income and a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://firstgen.naspa.org/files/dmfile/FactSheet-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">quarter of whom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are first in their families to attend college, finances play a big part in mental health, not only as a cause of stress but also as a reason to avoid seeking treatment. “Financial stress was a strong predictor of mental health outcomes,” researchers in the 2021 analysis wrote, “and cost was the most salient treatment barrier in the community college sample.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-does-use-of-mental-health-care-vary-by-demographics-and-health-insurance-coverage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Related research has shown\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that uninsured patients with depression and anxiety are less likely to receive mental health care compared to their insured counterparts, suggesting that cost plays a role.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anecdotally, community college administrators said that worry over finances is one piece of a bigger picture: Community college students are more often engaged in a balancing act that includes full-time work, child care and caring for other family members on top of their studies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have students from all walks of life. Some of them are married. Some have kids. They are juggling a lot,” said Maureen Delaney at Germanna Community College in Stafford, Virginia. “For a lot of students, this is their chance to try and do better for themselves or their families, and they struggle.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the same time, community colleges themselves are struggling to provide students with mental health services. One out of four community colleges \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/files/ACCA%20CCTF%202012-2013%20Survey%20FINAL.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">offer no mental health services\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mhec.org/sites/default/files/resources/20160215SS7_counseling_services.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">less than 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offer psychiatric services to students. And \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">enrollment continues to decline nationally\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, threatening to squeeze some schools’ already limited resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teletherapy’s potential to change the game\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy, with its anytime-anywhere model that is often paid for by the colleges and offered to students at no cost, has the potential to revolutionize mental health support for community college students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy’s greatest strength, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20050557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to psychotherapists\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is its ability to expand access, and early research shows it has the potential to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-17335-001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">provide the same outcomes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as in-person therapy, especially when performed by a well-trained, licensed therapist. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">College students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785477/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">find teletherapy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “convenient, accessible, easy to use and helpful,” mostly due to the expanded number and availability of therapists. Campus counseling centers often are open only during regular business hours and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/09/crunch-college-counseling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are short-staffed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Getting an appointment can take weeks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are there when the counseling office is closed, holidays, vacations and peak times when there’s not enough capacity,” said Michael London, CEO of Uwill, a web-based teletherapy platform serving more than 100 colleges and universities. “There’s video, phone, chat or messaging. The student drives the way they want to be helped.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most teletherapy services also offer a crisis line like the “TalkNow” button, which gives students who are having a mental health crisis or even a panic attack someone to chat with within minutes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy startups are also eliminating the web of medical and insurance bureaucracy that can stand in the way for students who don’t have insurance or can’t pay hourly fees to therapists who don’t take insurance. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07448481.2022.2062245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One recent study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> showed that a majority of college students, especially Black, Hispanic and Asian students, would consider teletherapy if no cost were involved. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colleges that hire teletherapy services can choose from a variety of plans for students, but according to the representatives of the teletherapy services interviewed for this story, many offer a certain number of therapy appointments to students for no cost, removing a barrier that can prevent low-income students from seeking mental health care.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond cost and convenience, teletherapy has the potential to break down other stubborn access barriers, especially for the most vulnerable groups of college students. Students of color and LGBTQ students, for example, are often looking for therapists with similar backgrounds, and teletherapy’s wide net of therapists can make that easier than the one or two found in the counseling center. In a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/well/mind/find-black-latinx-asian-therapist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recent \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Times\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> story\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Virginia psychologist Alfiee M. Breland-Noble noted that having this kind of cultural competence “is not how much do you know about individual cultures, it is more how do you show up in any space in a way that allows other people to feel welcome, to feel heard and to feel understood.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy services also hold great potential for students in rural areas, where mental health care service \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/mental-health/1/barriers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shortages are the greatest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and stigma against treatment \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-06780-005\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the highest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Promise and pitfalls ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy is still so new that questions remain about its effectiveness and accessibility. Researchers interviewed for this story agreed that easier access for people like community college students is promising — but more research needs to be done. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barriers to teletherapy remain for some groups as well, due to lack of internet access or a smartphone. The public doesn’t always realize how many college students are struggling with basic needs like food, housing and transportation, said Sara Abelson, senior director of training and education at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hope.temple.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hope Center for College, Community and Justice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Temple University. In a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hope.temple.edu/sites/hope/files/media/document/HopeSurveyReport2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 national survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of college students, the Hope Center found that more than one third of community college students often did not have enough food to eat, and 14% experienced homelessness at some point during the year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abelson said the Hope Center’s future research into basic needs will include collecting data on mental health, with attention to its relationship to lack of food and housing. “We believe and know colleges have to connect their dots,” she said. “When [students] go one place for SNAP, another for mental health support — [schools] have to think holistically about the supports that serve students.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the same time, the fast rise of teletherapy startups is calling quality into question. Some online therapists have complained that teletherapy appointments are too short, and some startups appear to be more focused on growth than helping patients. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6225361/telehealth-startups-cerebral-done-ahead/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recent \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">story\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> revealed that federal investigators are currently looking into teletherapy services Done and Cerebral for possible over-prescription practices. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet many community college students who have used teletherapy said it has helped them. After the student at Solano Community College sought help with teletherapy, she began telling other students about it. “I remember this one student, he was really struggling,” she said. “He was considering dropping out of school. I told him to use the ‘TalkNow’ button and find someone to talk to about it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As teletherapy becomes more popular and maybe even the norm, colleges are looking to expand, with digital help, what they can offer students, hoping to head off mental health challenges before they become crises. Many teletherapy apps have added wellness components — online yoga classes, meditation and other preventative measures students can access on their smartphones anytime. And at least one app, TimelyCare, has added help for basic needs like food, housing and transportation, all at the touch of a button. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alessandra, a second-year computer science major at Germanna Community College, said she thought she was having a panic attack on the night she hit the “TalkNow” button. She was feeling overwhelmed with thoughts of failure, worried about her GPA, and she couldn’t breathe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Alessandra got connected to a therapist, the professional walked her through some breathing techniques and meditation exercises to calm her down. “What I liked was, she was calm, and her calmness made me calm,”she said. “We just breathed together, and I loved that. I never paid attention to that before, but the breathing techniques helped me a lot.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Colleges are making sweeping changes to how mental health support is delivered to students on campus, with teletherapy at the top of the list.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1671398836,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":2020},"headData":{"title":"Talk now: How community colleges are using teletherapy to transform student mental health services - MindShift","description":"Colleges are making sweeping changes to how mental health support is delivered to students on campus, with teletherapy at the top of the list.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/60607/talk-now-how-community-colleges-are-using-teletherapy-to-transform-student-mental-health-services","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 4 a.m. one day early in her freshman year, a student at Solano Community College in Fairfield, California, reached for her phone. In her mind, everything felt like it was piling up — financial worries, academic stress and a relationship that had spun out of control. That night, she was feeling so anxious, she needed to talk to somebody right away. (The student’s name is not being used to protect her privacy. Another student in this story will be identified by first name only.)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With her bedroom door closed so her parents wouldn’t hear, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the student \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">opened an app she’d heard about on campus, one that gave students free access to a trained therapist for emergencies, anytime day or night. With her heart racing, she pressed a button in the app that said “TalkNow.” Within five minutes, she was connected to a therapist who asked if she was thinking of harming herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The student responded “no” but still felt like she was having “personal mental warfare” inside her own mind. She’d been struggling with her mental health for years — at one point, her depression became so debilitating she considered dropping out of high school. She never asked her parents to see a therapist; she didn’t want to burden them financially and felt they wouldn’t approve of her seeking therapy. The app made seeking help private and fast.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In their 30-minute session, the therapist gave her some coping tools. More than anything, it helped to talk to someone. “It felt better to be heard instead of silence, when I truly needed someone to talk to the most,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colleges are making \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/10/mental-health-campus-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sweeping changes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to how mental health support is delivered to students on campus, with teletherapy — in which patients receive mental health services via phone, text or video call — at the top of the list. Teletherapy \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/can-teletherapy-companies-ease-the-campus-mental-health-crisis?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spread to prominence during the pandemic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially for colleges that moved online while \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/well/2022/07/12/mental-health-crisis-college-schools-unprepared/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">youth mental health problems like anxiety and depression skyrocketed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Tech companies like Uwill, Bettermynd and TimelyCare — provider of the blue-button “TalkNow” 24/7 crisis line — partner with colleges and universities to offer students mental health services beyond the 9-to-5 schedule of the counseling center, focusing instead on students’ convenience, and often for no cost to the student. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While research on teletherapy is still in its early stages, experts agree that the service has great potential especially for community college students, who are often low-income and under- or uninsured and lack access to mental health care. While many schools are still in their first or second years of offering teletherapy, community college administrators interviewed for this story agreed that the technology has been a game-changer for students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For us, it’s a retention effort,” said Emily Stone, Dean of counseling and student success programs at Diablo Valley Community College in Pleasant Hill, California. Pointing to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html#:~:text=There%20are%20five%20levels%20in,esteem%2C%20and%20self%2Dactualization.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maslow’s hierarchy of needs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the research-backed idea that students who are mentally unwell can’t learn, she said, “Our well-being, our mental health, are all foundational for a student being able to show up to class, be productive and be successful.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For community colleges, a different mental health crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most colleges and universities were already seeing a climb in mental health issues among students before the pandemic made them considerably worse. According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032722002774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healthy Minds survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of campuses across the country, by 2021 more than 60% of college students met criteria for at least one mental health problem, with the most common being anxiety, depression and suicidality. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet mental health challenges look slightly different for the nation’s roughly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/community-college-faqs.html#:~:text=Overall%2C%2044%25%20of%20undergraduates%20were,small%20numbers%20of%20bachelor's%20degrees.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">4.2 million community college students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who constitute about a third or more of all undergraduates. According to a 2021 national analysis, community college students ages 18-22 had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33657842/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">significantly higher prevalence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of anxiety and depression than their four-year undergraduate peers and at the same time were much less likely to seek treatment — especially those from historically marginalized backgrounds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For community college students, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/community-college-faqs.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than a third of whom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are low-income and a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://firstgen.naspa.org/files/dmfile/FactSheet-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">quarter of whom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are first in their families to attend college, finances play a big part in mental health, not only as a cause of stress but also as a reason to avoid seeking treatment. “Financial stress was a strong predictor of mental health outcomes,” researchers in the 2021 analysis wrote, “and cost was the most salient treatment barrier in the community college sample.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-does-use-of-mental-health-care-vary-by-demographics-and-health-insurance-coverage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Related research has shown\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that uninsured patients with depression and anxiety are less likely to receive mental health care compared to their insured counterparts, suggesting that cost plays a role.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anecdotally, community college administrators said that worry over finances is one piece of a bigger picture: Community college students are more often engaged in a balancing act that includes full-time work, child care and caring for other family members on top of their studies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have students from all walks of life. Some of them are married. Some have kids. They are juggling a lot,” said Maureen Delaney at Germanna Community College in Stafford, Virginia. “For a lot of students, this is their chance to try and do better for themselves or their families, and they struggle.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the same time, community colleges themselves are struggling to provide students with mental health services. One out of four community colleges \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/files/ACCA%20CCTF%202012-2013%20Survey%20FINAL.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">offer no mental health services\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mhec.org/sites/default/files/resources/20160215SS7_counseling_services.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">less than 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offer psychiatric services to students. And \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">enrollment continues to decline nationally\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, threatening to squeeze some schools’ already limited resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Teletherapy’s potential to change the game\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy, with its anytime-anywhere model that is often paid for by the colleges and offered to students at no cost, has the potential to revolutionize mental health support for community college students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy’s greatest strength, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20050557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to psychotherapists\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is its ability to expand access, and early research shows it has the potential to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-17335-001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">provide the same outcomes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as in-person therapy, especially when performed by a well-trained, licensed therapist. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">College students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785477/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">find teletherapy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “convenient, accessible, easy to use and helpful,” mostly due to the expanded number and availability of therapists. Campus counseling centers often are open only during regular business hours and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/09/crunch-college-counseling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are short-staffed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Getting an appointment can take weeks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are there when the counseling office is closed, holidays, vacations and peak times when there’s not enough capacity,” said Michael London, CEO of Uwill, a web-based teletherapy platform serving more than 100 colleges and universities. “There’s video, phone, chat or messaging. The student drives the way they want to be helped.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most teletherapy services also offer a crisis line like the “TalkNow” button, which gives students who are having a mental health crisis or even a panic attack someone to chat with within minutes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy startups are also eliminating the web of medical and insurance bureaucracy that can stand in the way for students who don’t have insurance or can’t pay hourly fees to therapists who don’t take insurance. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07448481.2022.2062245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One recent study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> showed that a majority of college students, especially Black, Hispanic and Asian students, would consider teletherapy if no cost were involved. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colleges that hire teletherapy services can choose from a variety of plans for students, but according to the representatives of the teletherapy services interviewed for this story, many offer a certain number of therapy appointments to students for no cost, removing a barrier that can prevent low-income students from seeking mental health care.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beyond cost and convenience, teletherapy has the potential to break down other stubborn access barriers, especially for the most vulnerable groups of college students. Students of color and LGBTQ students, for example, are often looking for therapists with similar backgrounds, and teletherapy’s wide net of therapists can make that easier than the one or two found in the counseling center. In a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/well/mind/find-black-latinx-asian-therapist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recent \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Times\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> story\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Virginia psychologist Alfiee M. Breland-Noble noted that having this kind of cultural competence “is not how much do you know about individual cultures, it is more how do you show up in any space in a way that allows other people to feel welcome, to feel heard and to feel understood.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy services also hold great potential for students in rural areas, where mental health care service \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/mental-health/1/barriers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shortages are the greatest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and stigma against treatment \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-06780-005\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the highest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Promise and pitfalls ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teletherapy is still so new that questions remain about its effectiveness and accessibility. Researchers interviewed for this story agreed that easier access for people like community college students is promising — but more research needs to be done. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barriers to teletherapy remain for some groups as well, due to lack of internet access or a smartphone. The public doesn’t always realize how many college students are struggling with basic needs like food, housing and transportation, said Sara Abelson, senior director of training and education at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hope.temple.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hope Center for College, Community and Justice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Temple University. In a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hope.temple.edu/sites/hope/files/media/document/HopeSurveyReport2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 national survey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of college students, the Hope Center found that more than one third of community college students often did not have enough food to eat, and 14% experienced homelessness at some point during the year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abelson said the Hope Center’s future research into basic needs will include collecting data on mental health, with attention to its relationship to lack of food and housing. “We believe and know colleges have to connect their dots,” she said. “When [students] go one place for SNAP, another for mental health support — [schools] have to think holistically about the supports that serve students.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the same time, the fast rise of teletherapy startups is calling quality into question. Some online therapists have complained that teletherapy appointments are too short, and some startups appear to be more focused on growth than helping patients. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6225361/telehealth-startups-cerebral-done-ahead/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recent \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">story\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> revealed that federal investigators are currently looking into teletherapy services Done and Cerebral for possible over-prescription practices. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet many community college students who have used teletherapy said it has helped them. After the student at Solano Community College sought help with teletherapy, she began telling other students about it. “I remember this one student, he was really struggling,” she said. “He was considering dropping out of school. I told him to use the ‘TalkNow’ button and find someone to talk to about it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As teletherapy becomes more popular and maybe even the norm, colleges are looking to expand, with digital help, what they can offer students, hoping to head off mental health challenges before they become crises. Many teletherapy apps have added wellness components — online yoga classes, meditation and other preventative measures students can access on their smartphones anytime. And at least one app, TimelyCare, has added help for basic needs like food, housing and transportation, all at the touch of a button. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alessandra, a second-year computer science major at Germanna Community College, said she thought she was having a panic attack on the night she hit the “TalkNow” button. She was feeling overwhelmed with thoughts of failure, worried about her GPA, and she couldn’t breathe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Alessandra got connected to a therapist, the professional walked her through some breathing techniques and meditation exercises to calm her down. “What I liked was, she was calm, and her calmness made me calm,”she said. “We just breathed together, and I loved that. I never paid attention to that before, but the breathing techniques helped me a lot.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60607/talk-now-how-community-colleges-are-using-teletherapy-to-transform-student-mental-health-services","authors":["4445"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_20966","mindshift_68","mindshift_20865","mindshift_21420"],"featImg":"mindshift_60609","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_59503":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_59503","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"59503","score":null,"sort":[1655719435000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"states-and-localities-pump-more-money-into-community-colleges-than-four-year-campuses","title":"States and localities pump more money into community colleges than four-year campuses","publishDate":1655719435,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>State and county officials used to think bachelor’s and graduate degree students deserved more money than those pursuing two-year associate degrees, but during the pandemic they changed their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. That’s a reversal from 2019 when two-year students received 5 percent less than four-year students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numbers were supplied by an association of officials who oversee public colleges and universities in their states, called the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO), which released a \u003ca href=\"https://shef.sheeo.org/\">higher education finance report in June 2022\u003c/a>. The funding figures exclude additional state and federal money for university research, agricultural projects, medical schools and hospitals in order to put a spotlight on funds that are available for students’ educations. Community colleges don’t receive these sorts of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All public institutions need more funding for operations, but community colleges are particularly reliant on state and local funding,” said Sophia Laderman, who leads research and policy analysis at the association. “Community college students are more likely to be low-income and students of color and this can help close equity gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with increased state and local funding, much less is spent on community college students in total. The difference is tuition. Tuition collected from community college students adds up to only about 20 percent of what community colleges spend on their educational operations. Almost 80 percent of community college revenues come from state and local funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public four-year colleges, by contrast, charge far higher tuition and ultimately spend more than double their state and local funds on their students. Flagship universities attract big donors and can dip into their endowments. “They can still provide a much better education,” said Laderman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSL364yPSmDeYNB7POfU1HmaJ-G2j8pylO7-xUia3ZkAdp-GKr2uQ96kAOA8xnSilnQ0BjV7-p_4elH/pubchart?oid=1311450222&format=interactive\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an aside, I was struck by how much less we as a nation spend on public higher education than we do public school for younger students. Per pupil funding of kindergarten through high school students \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2022/2022301.pdf\">averaged $15,711 during the 2019-20 school year\u003c/a>, according to the most recent data from the Department of Education. Then again, it makes sense for the government to spend more on children’s education which is mandated by the state. College is optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have historically funded public four-year institutions that confer bachelor's and graduate degrees, such as the University of Texas, more generously than two-year colleges, such as Austin Community College, which award associate degrees and educate \u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/community-college-faqs.html\">more than a third of undergraduate student\u003c/a>s across the country. When the 2008 recession hit, both community colleges and four-year universities alike were hit with big budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the economy recovered, however, state lawmakers restored funding to community colleges, which positioned themselves as places for \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/61\">blue-collar workforce training\u003c/a>. In addition to appropriating more money directly to two-year colleges, lawmakers created many \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/popular-free-college-programs-yield-mixed-results/\">new free community college programs\u003c/a> and scholarships, which now operate in hundreds of cities and counties and statewide in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/free-college-is-now-a-reality-in-nearly-30-states.html\">almost 30 states\u003c/a>. By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.idahopress.com/eyeonboise/the-social-justice-debate-in-higher-ed-from-equity-to-cannibalism/article_727a169b-26ea-5b5e-9ce7-a752db6f1f71.html\">a conservative backlash against “liberal”\u003c/a> academics tamped enthusiasm for funding increases at more elite four-year universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community colleges also gained from regional real estate booms, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.highereddive.com/news/property-taxes-lift-community-college-revenue-as-enrollment-ebbs/564319/\">increased property taxes\u003c/a> that flow to two-year colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for community colleges, already on the upswing, then surpassed that of four-year universities during the pandemic. State lawmakers had discretion over how to spend a portion of their federal stimulus money and steered a big chunk to community colleges. Some states dug even deeper into their own pockets. Washington, for example, increased its funding of community colleges by 27 percent in 2021, as it introduced a free community college program. By comparison, the state boosted funding of its four-year colleges by 6.5 percent that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59504\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 977px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-59504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college.png 977w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college-800x504.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college-768x484.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State and local funding for community college students, depicted by the green line, steadily rose since the 2008 recession while funding for students at public universities didn’t rise as much. Funding per FTE or full-time equivalent means the amount of funds available for each full-time student or its equivalent number of part-time students. The majority of community college students attend part-time and, for example, two half-time students would equal one full-time equivalent student. Source: Investigating The Impacts Of State Higher Education Appropriations And Financial Aid, SHEEO, May 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironically, some of the increase in per-student funding was also driven by misfortune. Community colleges hemorrhaged \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\">827,000 students\u003c/a> during the pandemic as young adults chose work over school. Some government funding is tied to the numbers of enrolled students but some isn’t. With fewer students, there was more of that untied funding to spread among remaining students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laderman cautioned, however, that this aspect of the increase was not a boon for community colleges. They still had to cover many of the same bills as they had before the students left, from faculty salaries to custodians and electricity. Many are struggling financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Per student funding would have gone up even without the decline in student enrollment at community colleges. Laderman calculated that state and local education appropriations per community college student would have increased by half as much, or 7 percent, if enrollment hadn’t declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how higher education finance will fare going forward. If a recession hits and unemployed adults return to school, that could increase funds for community colleges. But lawmakers may also be pressured once again to cut funding if tax collections run dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-states-and-localities-pump-more-money-into-community-colleges-than-four-year-campuses/\">\u003cem>community college funding\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletter.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Politicians restore funding for institutions that conduct workforce training and favor free community college programs. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655797879,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSL364yPSmDeYNB7POfU1HmaJ-G2j8pylO7-xUia3ZkAdp-GKr2uQ96kAOA8xnSilnQ0BjV7-p_4elH/pubchart"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1000},"headData":{"title":"States and localities pump more money into community colleges than four-year campuses - MindShift","description":"Politicians restore funding for institutions that conduct workforce training and favor free community college programs. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"59503 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=59503","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2022/06/20/states-and-localities-pump-more-money-into-community-colleges-than-four-year-campuses/","disqusTitle":"States and localities pump more money into community colleges than four-year campuses","nprByline":"Jill Barshay, \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/mindshift/59503/states-and-localities-pump-more-money-into-community-colleges-than-four-year-campuses","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State and county officials used to think bachelor’s and graduate degree students deserved more money than those pursuing two-year associate degrees, but during the pandemic they changed their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. That’s a reversal from 2019 when two-year students received 5 percent less than four-year students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numbers were supplied by an association of officials who oversee public colleges and universities in their states, called the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO), which released a \u003ca href=\"https://shef.sheeo.org/\">higher education finance report in June 2022\u003c/a>. The funding figures exclude additional state and federal money for university research, agricultural projects, medical schools and hospitals in order to put a spotlight on funds that are available for students’ educations. Community colleges don’t receive these sorts of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All public institutions need more funding for operations, but community colleges are particularly reliant on state and local funding,” said Sophia Laderman, who leads research and policy analysis at the association. “Community college students are more likely to be low-income and students of color and this can help close equity gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with increased state and local funding, much less is spent on community college students in total. The difference is tuition. Tuition collected from community college students adds up to only about 20 percent of what community colleges spend on their educational operations. Almost 80 percent of community college revenues come from state and local funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public four-year colleges, by contrast, charge far higher tuition and ultimately spend more than double their state and local funds on their students. Flagship universities attract big donors and can dip into their endowments. “They can still provide a much better education,” said Laderman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSL364yPSmDeYNB7POfU1HmaJ-G2j8pylO7-xUia3ZkAdp-GKr2uQ96kAOA8xnSilnQ0BjV7-p_4elH/pubchart?oid=1311450222&format=interactive\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an aside, I was struck by how much less we as a nation spend on public higher education than we do public school for younger students. Per pupil funding of kindergarten through high school students \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2022/2022301.pdf\">averaged $15,711 during the 2019-20 school year\u003c/a>, according to the most recent data from the Department of Education. Then again, it makes sense for the government to spend more on children’s education which is mandated by the state. College is optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have historically funded public four-year institutions that confer bachelor's and graduate degrees, such as the University of Texas, more generously than two-year colleges, such as Austin Community College, which award associate degrees and educate \u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/community-college-faqs.html\">more than a third of undergraduate student\u003c/a>s across the country. When the 2008 recession hit, both community colleges and four-year universities alike were hit with big budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the economy recovered, however, state lawmakers restored funding to community colleges, which positioned themselves as places for \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/61\">blue-collar workforce training\u003c/a>. In addition to appropriating more money directly to two-year colleges, lawmakers created many \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/popular-free-college-programs-yield-mixed-results/\">new free community college programs\u003c/a> and scholarships, which now operate in hundreds of cities and counties and statewide in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/free-college-is-now-a-reality-in-nearly-30-states.html\">almost 30 states\u003c/a>. By contrast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.idahopress.com/eyeonboise/the-social-justice-debate-in-higher-ed-from-equity-to-cannibalism/article_727a169b-26ea-5b5e-9ce7-a752db6f1f71.html\">a conservative backlash against “liberal”\u003c/a> academics tamped enthusiasm for funding increases at more elite four-year universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community colleges also gained from regional real estate booms, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.highereddive.com/news/property-taxes-lift-community-college-revenue-as-enrollment-ebbs/564319/\">increased property taxes\u003c/a> that flow to two-year colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for community colleges, already on the upswing, then surpassed that of four-year universities during the pandemic. State lawmakers had discretion over how to spend a portion of their federal stimulus money and steered a big chunk to community colleges. Some states dug even deeper into their own pockets. Washington, for example, increased its funding of community colleges by 27 percent in 2021, as it introduced a free community college program. By comparison, the state boosted funding of its four-year colleges by 6.5 percent that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59504\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 977px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-59504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college.png 977w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college-800x504.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/06/State-and-local-funding-for-community-college-768x484.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State and local funding for community college students, depicted by the green line, steadily rose since the 2008 recession while funding for students at public universities didn’t rise as much. Funding per FTE or full-time equivalent means the amount of funds available for each full-time student or its equivalent number of part-time students. The majority of community college students attend part-time and, for example, two half-time students would equal one full-time equivalent student. Source: Investigating The Impacts Of State Higher Education Appropriations And Financial Aid, SHEEO, May 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironically, some of the increase in per-student funding was also driven by misfortune. Community colleges hemorrhaged \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\">827,000 students\u003c/a> during the pandemic as young adults chose work over school. Some government funding is tied to the numbers of enrolled students but some isn’t. With fewer students, there was more of that untied funding to spread among remaining students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laderman cautioned, however, that this aspect of the increase was not a boon for community colleges. They still had to cover many of the same bills as they had before the students left, from faculty salaries to custodians and electricity. Many are struggling financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Per student funding would have gone up even without the decline in student enrollment at community colleges. Laderman calculated that state and local education appropriations per community college student would have increased by half as much, or 7 percent, if enrollment hadn’t declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how higher education finance will fare going forward. If a recession hits and unemployed adults return to school, that could increase funds for community colleges. But lawmakers may also be pressured once again to cut funding if tax collections run dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-states-and-localities-pump-more-money-into-community-colleges-than-four-year-campuses/\">\u003cem>community college funding\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletter.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/59503/states-and-localities-pump-more-money-into-community-colleges-than-four-year-campuses","authors":["byline_mindshift_59503"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20966"],"featImg":"mindshift_59505","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_58743":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_58743","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"58743","score":null,"sort":[1636705417000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"most-students-who-want-to-transfer-colleges-dont-heres-how-to-start","title":"Most students who want to transfer colleges don't. Here's how to start","publishDate":1636705417,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Unique. Complicated. Overwhelming. Those are just a few of the ways people have described the college transfer process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://impactstudio.oregonstate.edu/transfer-enrollment-and-success-expansion\">Bridget Jones\u003c/a>, the senior associate director of transfer admissions at Oregon State University, has a different way of describing it, though: \"Complex ... but not in a scary way.\" Jones helps guide students through the transfer process because even if it's not scary, it can definitely be confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that 80% of community college students intend to transfer but fewer than a third actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these hurdles, transferring is a popular route to a four-year college and can be a great way to save money or move from a school that isn't a good fit. It can also offer you a different or new location and open up doors to career opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The great news is that transfers thrive when they transfer,\" explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspeninstitute.org/our-people/heather-adams/\">Heather Adams\u003c/a>, a senior program manager at the Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do you make the transfer process go as smoothly as possible? Here's what experts recommend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It's never too early to start\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First off, who can help you start this process? If you're at a community college, reach out to your school's transfer center. It'll often be staffed with transfer advisers who can help you figure out what you need to do. You can also directly contact the transfer center at the university you'd like to transfer to. Honestly, it might be a good idea to do both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to start planning from Day 1,\" says Marisa Serrano, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.austincc.edu/students/transfer-services/transfer-advising-specialists\">transfer resources coordinator \u003c/a>for the Austin Community College (ACC) District. Her job is to help students through the transfer process, and she says students often come into her office on a tight timeline the semester before they're trying to transfer. \"A lot of things could have happened that we could have helped them with along the process if we knew they were going to transfer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says your first semester at community college is not too early to start thinking about transferring. Your transfer journey can even start in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Hauck took classes at ACC when he was still in high school. That's when he started to map out his plan for graduation. \"I always knew I was pretty much going to transfer from ACC,\" says Hauck, who did his freshman year at ACC before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. \"I knew that there wouldn't be a four-year degree for me at ACC.\" The year he took classes at the community college, he worked with a transfer counselor to plot out his courses so the jump to university would be seamless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do beware of deadlines! Jones says the first question students should ask is, what's the deadline to transfer? If you missed it, don't worry too much — many schools admit students at several points throughout the year. Oregon State University offers admissions four times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Figure out what you want to study, and make sure your credits apply\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A lot of people don't know exactly what they want to study when they begin college, but deciding on a major is essential to the transfer process. First off, you want to make sure you're looking at schools that offer the majors you're interested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you figure out what you might want to study, look into what credits the degree requires. For example, if you're thinking of studying engineering at a four-year institution, you're going to need a lot of math credits. But if you're hoping to major in psychology, you might need fewer math classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody wants to take calculus if they don't have to,\" says Serrano. It's best, she says, not to just take classes for the sake of taking classes. You want to know that the classes you're taking at community college are going toward your degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a distinction between credits that just transfer and credits that \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> to your major. To help figure this out, lots of schools offer transfer guides — documents that show which credits apply to your program of study, which leads us to our next takeaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Find a school that fits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mia Mendoza knows a thing or two about transferring. She has transferred twice — once from City College of San Francisco to San Francisco State University and again from San Francisco State to California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). She says she initially transferred to San Francisco State because it was close by and familiar. \"I knew friends who went there, so they could help me out with anything if I needed it.\" In retrospect, she wishes she'd done more research about student life, resources for transfer students and campus feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When thinking about institutions to transfer to, Mendoza, who is also a transfer peer mentor at CSUSB, says to look for schools that have support in place for transfer students. \"One thing I would strongly recommend is to see if they have a transfer center. If they have it, I would say that's already a good sign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second time Mendoza transferred, she conducted a lot more research and made sure the campus, academics and student opportunities were all a good fit for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When thinking about how many schools to apply to, Jones recommends \"the tried-and-true three. You should not be stressing yourself out trying to apply to 20 different schools.\" Jones says students should look for three to five schools that \"have programs that are suited to their end goal\" and that work with their lifestyle and will help them thrive in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you're trying to figure out if a school would be a good fit for you, you can ask yourself: Do you want big or small classroom sizes? Do you prefer urban or rural environments or something in between? What career opportunities do they have for you? And of course, do they offer the major you're interested in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simeone Miller, a transfer peer mentor at CSUSB who transferred from Chaffey College, a community college in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., recommends reaching out directly to the department chairs of the schools you're applying to. \"Look at the program you're applying for. See if it fits what your interests might be.\" Miller, who was interested in studying political science, says CSUSB's program \"stood out to me the most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stay organized\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Credits, official transcripts, essays — the transfer process has a lot of moving parts to keep track of. For Mendoza, staying organized was key to her success during the transfer process. \"By the time I transferred, I had Google Sheet documents listing all the classes I had and all the grades I got.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano suggests saving your class syllabuses. \"Take a picture, store it in the drive or keep a hard copy,\" she says. Your syllabuses can help with transferring out of state or to private universities. If you're trying to make a class apply to a course at a four-year institution, she says it can help to have the syllabus as a record of what you did for that class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll also need to request official transcripts from all the schools you've taken classes at, usually through an office called the registrar — which is the official record keeper of a college. Miller recommends clarifying how the transcripts are being sent because schools do it differently: \"Am I sending it? Or are you doing it on my behalf?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're planning to move out of state to transfer, you'll also need to establish residency to qualify for in-state tuition. Hannah Beck, who transferred from the University of Alaska Fairbanks to Oregon State University, says to make sure you keep track of important documents such as bank statements and mail that show your new address. You might also need government-issued documents such as a voter registration card dated at least 12 months prior to your first day of class. Make sure to check your state's guidelines for establishing residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ask for help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For people who work in transfer admissions at four-year schools, like Jones, or transfer counselors at community colleges, like Serrano, their whole job is designed to help you through this process, so take advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarissa Perez, a transfer peer mentor at CSUSB, says to reach out to the university you want to attend and ask questions. \"Find those email addresses and literally ask all the questions that you have as transfer students.\" Most college websites have a directory to look up contact information for members of the transfer staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says that just because you're familiar with the ropes of post-secondary education doesn't mean you don't need support transferring to another institution. \"The expectation is that we already know how to college — we've already done the community college, we know what it takes and we know the whole process. But that's not true because the university system is a completely different monster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't have questions, she still recommends reaching out. \"Just find an email address and say, 'Hey, I'm a transfer student thinking about coming in. Is there anything you can share with me?' Because if you never reach out, you're not going to get anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was adapted for digital by Clare Marie Schneider, who also produced the audio portion of this story, with engineering support from Neal Rauch.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We'd love to hear from you. If you have a good life hack, leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:lifekit@npr.org\">\u003cem>LifeKit@npr.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Your tip could appear in an upcoming episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you love Life Kit and want more,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/life-kit\">\u003cem> subscribe to our newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Most+students+who+want+to+transfer+colleges+don%27t.+Here%27s+how+to+start&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Most students who want to transfer colleges don't. The process can be complicated and confusing and differ from state to state and institution to institution. Despite these hurdles, transferring is a common route to a four-year college. So how do you make the process go as smoothly as possible? 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Complicated. Overwhelming. Those are just a few of the ways people have described the college transfer process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://impactstudio.oregonstate.edu/transfer-enrollment-and-success-expansion\">Bridget Jones\u003c/a>, the senior associate director of transfer admissions at Oregon State University, has a different way of describing it, though: \"Complex ... but not in a scary way.\" Jones helps guide students through the transfer process because even if it's not scary, it can definitely be confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that 80% of community college students intend to transfer but fewer than a third actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these hurdles, transferring is a popular route to a four-year college and can be a great way to save money or move from a school that isn't a good fit. It can also offer you a different or new location and open up doors to career opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The great news is that transfers thrive when they transfer,\" explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspeninstitute.org/our-people/heather-adams/\">Heather Adams\u003c/a>, a senior program manager at the Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do you make the transfer process go as smoothly as possible? Here's what experts recommend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It's never too early to start\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First off, who can help you start this process? If you're at a community college, reach out to your school's transfer center. It'll often be staffed with transfer advisers who can help you figure out what you need to do. You can also directly contact the transfer center at the university you'd like to transfer to. Honestly, it might be a good idea to do both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to start planning from Day 1,\" says Marisa Serrano, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.austincc.edu/students/transfer-services/transfer-advising-specialists\">transfer resources coordinator \u003c/a>for the Austin Community College (ACC) District. Her job is to help students through the transfer process, and she says students often come into her office on a tight timeline the semester before they're trying to transfer. \"A lot of things could have happened that we could have helped them with along the process if we knew they were going to transfer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says your first semester at community college is not too early to start thinking about transferring. Your transfer journey can even start in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Hauck took classes at ACC when he was still in high school. That's when he started to map out his plan for graduation. \"I always knew I was pretty much going to transfer from ACC,\" says Hauck, who did his freshman year at ACC before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. \"I knew that there wouldn't be a four-year degree for me at ACC.\" The year he took classes at the community college, he worked with a transfer counselor to plot out his courses so the jump to university would be seamless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do beware of deadlines! Jones says the first question students should ask is, what's the deadline to transfer? If you missed it, don't worry too much — many schools admit students at several points throughout the year. Oregon State University offers admissions four times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Figure out what you want to study, and make sure your credits apply\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A lot of people don't know exactly what they want to study when they begin college, but deciding on a major is essential to the transfer process. First off, you want to make sure you're looking at schools that offer the majors you're interested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you figure out what you might want to study, look into what credits the degree requires. For example, if you're thinking of studying engineering at a four-year institution, you're going to need a lot of math credits. But if you're hoping to major in psychology, you might need fewer math classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody wants to take calculus if they don't have to,\" says Serrano. It's best, she says, not to just take classes for the sake of taking classes. You want to know that the classes you're taking at community college are going toward your degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a distinction between credits that just transfer and credits that \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> to your major. To help figure this out, lots of schools offer transfer guides — documents that show which credits apply to your program of study, which leads us to our next takeaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Find a school that fits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mia Mendoza knows a thing or two about transferring. She has transferred twice — once from City College of San Francisco to San Francisco State University and again from San Francisco State to California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). She says she initially transferred to San Francisco State because it was close by and familiar. \"I knew friends who went there, so they could help me out with anything if I needed it.\" In retrospect, she wishes she'd done more research about student life, resources for transfer students and campus feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When thinking about institutions to transfer to, Mendoza, who is also a transfer peer mentor at CSUSB, says to look for schools that have support in place for transfer students. \"One thing I would strongly recommend is to see if they have a transfer center. If they have it, I would say that's already a good sign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second time Mendoza transferred, she conducted a lot more research and made sure the campus, academics and student opportunities were all a good fit for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When thinking about how many schools to apply to, Jones recommends \"the tried-and-true three. You should not be stressing yourself out trying to apply to 20 different schools.\" Jones says students should look for three to five schools that \"have programs that are suited to their end goal\" and that work with their lifestyle and will help them thrive in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you're trying to figure out if a school would be a good fit for you, you can ask yourself: Do you want big or small classroom sizes? Do you prefer urban or rural environments or something in between? What career opportunities do they have for you? And of course, do they offer the major you're interested in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simeone Miller, a transfer peer mentor at CSUSB who transferred from Chaffey College, a community college in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., recommends reaching out directly to the department chairs of the schools you're applying to. \"Look at the program you're applying for. See if it fits what your interests might be.\" Miller, who was interested in studying political science, says CSUSB's program \"stood out to me the most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stay organized\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Credits, official transcripts, essays — the transfer process has a lot of moving parts to keep track of. For Mendoza, staying organized was key to her success during the transfer process. \"By the time I transferred, I had Google Sheet documents listing all the classes I had and all the grades I got.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano suggests saving your class syllabuses. \"Take a picture, store it in the drive or keep a hard copy,\" she says. Your syllabuses can help with transferring out of state or to private universities. If you're trying to make a class apply to a course at a four-year institution, she says it can help to have the syllabus as a record of what you did for that class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll also need to request official transcripts from all the schools you've taken classes at, usually through an office called the registrar — which is the official record keeper of a college. Miller recommends clarifying how the transcripts are being sent because schools do it differently: \"Am I sending it? Or are you doing it on my behalf?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're planning to move out of state to transfer, you'll also need to establish residency to qualify for in-state tuition. Hannah Beck, who transferred from the University of Alaska Fairbanks to Oregon State University, says to make sure you keep track of important documents such as bank statements and mail that show your new address. You might also need government-issued documents such as a voter registration card dated at least 12 months prior to your first day of class. Make sure to check your state's guidelines for establishing residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ask for help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For people who work in transfer admissions at four-year schools, like Jones, or transfer counselors at community colleges, like Serrano, their whole job is designed to help you through this process, so take advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarissa Perez, a transfer peer mentor at CSUSB, says to reach out to the university you want to attend and ask questions. \"Find those email addresses and literally ask all the questions that you have as transfer students.\" Most college websites have a directory to look up contact information for members of the transfer staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says that just because you're familiar with the ropes of post-secondary education doesn't mean you don't need support transferring to another institution. \"The expectation is that we already know how to college — we've already done the community college, we know what it takes and we know the whole process. But that's not true because the university system is a completely different monster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't have questions, she still recommends reaching out. \"Just find an email address and say, 'Hey, I'm a transfer student thinking about coming in. Is there anything you can share with me?' Because if you never reach out, you're not going to get anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was adapted for digital by Clare Marie Schneider, who also produced the audio portion of this story, with engineering support from Neal Rauch.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We'd love to hear from you. If you have a good life hack, leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:lifekit@npr.org\">\u003cem>LifeKit@npr.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Your tip could appear in an upcoming episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you love Life Kit and want more,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/life-kit\">\u003cem> subscribe to our newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Most+students+who+want+to+transfer+colleges+don%27t.+Here%27s+how+to+start&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/58743/most-students-who-want-to-transfer-colleges-dont-heres-how-to-start","authors":["byline_mindshift_58743"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20733","mindshift_21452","mindshift_20966"],"featImg":"mindshift_58744","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57976":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57976","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57976","score":null,"sort":[1623397490000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"spring-numbers-show-dramatic-drop-in-college-enrollment","title":"Spring Numbers Show 'Dramatic' Drop In College Enrollment","publishDate":1623397490,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Undergraduate college enrollment fell again this spring, down nearly 5% from a year ago. That means 727,000 fewer students, \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\">according to new data\u003c/a> from the National Student Clearinghouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's really dramatic,\" says Doug Shapiro, who leads the clearinghouse's research center. Fall enrollment numbers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/925831720/losing-a-generation-fall-college-enrollment-plummets-for-first-year-students\">had indicated things were bad\u003c/a>, with a 3.6% undergraduate decline compared with a year earlier, but experts were waiting to see if those students who held off in the fall would enroll in the spring. That didn't appear to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite all kinds of hopes and expectations that things would get better, they've only gotten worse in the spring,\" Shapiro says. \"It's really the end of a truly frightening year for higher education. There will be no easy fixes or quick bounce backs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall enrollment in undergraduate and graduate programs has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787909495/fewer-students-are-going-to-college-heres-why-that-matters\">trending downward\u003c/a> since around 2012, and that was true again this spring, \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\">which saw a 3.5% decline\u003c/a> — seven times worse than the drop from spring 2019 to spring 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Student Clearinghouse attributed that decline entirely to undergraduates across all sectors, including for-profit colleges. Community colleges, which often enroll more low-income students and students of color, remained hardest hit by far, making up more than 65% of the total undergraduate enrollment losses this spring. On average, U.S. community colleges saw an enrollment drop of 9.5%, which translates to 476,000 fewer students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The enrollment landscape has completely shifted and changed, as though an earthquake has hit the ground,\" says Heidi Aldes, dean of enrollment management at Minneapolis College, a community college in Minnesota. She says her college's fall 2020 enrollment was down about 8% from the previous year, and spring 2021 enrollment was down about 11%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\"Less students are getting an education\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Based on her conversations with students, Aldes attributes the enrollment decline to a number of factors, including being online, the \"pandemic paralysis\" community members felt when COVID-19 first hit, and the financial situations families found themselves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many folks felt like they couldn't afford to\u003cem> not\u003c/em> work and so couldn't afford to go to school and lose that full-time income,\" Aldes says. \"There was so much uncertainty and unpredictability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disproportionately high number of students of color withdrew or decided to delay their educational goals, she says, adding to equity gaps that already exist in the Minneapolis area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure, there is a fiscal impact to the college, but that isn't where my brain goes,\" Aldes says. \"There's a decline, which means there are less students getting an education. That is the tragedy, that less students are getting an education, because we know how important education is to a successful future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help increase enrollment, her team is reaching out to the high school classes of 2020 and 2021, and they're contacting students who previously applied or previously enrolled and stopped attending. She says she's hopeful the college's in-person offerings — which now make up nearly 45% of its classes — will entice students to come back, and appeal to those who aren't interested in online courses. So far, enrollment numbers for fall 2021 are up by 1%. \"We are climbing back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A widening divide\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite overall enrollment declines nationally, graduate program enrollments were up by more than 120,000 students this spring. That means there are \u003cem>more \u003c/em>students who already have college degrees earning \u003cem>more \u003c/em>credentials, while, at the other end of the spectrum, students at the beginning of their higher ed careers are opting out — a grim picture of a widening gap in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of the educational equivalent of the rich getting richer,\" Shapiro says. \"Those gaps in education and skills will be baked into our economy, and those families' lives, for years to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The value of a college degree — and its impact on earning power and recession resilience — has only been reinforced by the pandemic. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans with a college degree were more likely to stay employed during the pandemic, and if they did lose a job, they were more likely to get hired again. Unemployment rates were higher for those without a degree or credential beyond high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Almost all of the income gains and the employment gains for the last decade have gone to people with higher education degrees and credentials,\" Shapiro says. \"Those who are getting squeezed out of college today, especially at community colleges, are just getting further and further away from being able to enjoy some of those benefits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the National Student Clearinghouse data, traditional college students, those 18 to 24, were the largest age group missing from undergraduate programs. That includes many students from the high school class of 2020, who graduated at the beginning of the pandemic. Additional research from the clearinghouse shows \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/high-school-benchmarks/\">a 6.8% decline in college-going rates\u003c/a> among the class of 2020 compared with the class of 2019 — that's more than four times the decline between the classes of 2018 and 2019. College-going rates were worse for students at high-poverty high schools, which saw declines of more than 11%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For communities and organizations tasked with helping high school graduates transition and succeed in college, the job this year is exponentially harder. Students have always struggled to attend college: \"It's not new to us,\" says Nazy Zargarpour, who leads the Pomona Regional Learning Collaborative, which helps Southern California high school students enroll and graduate from college. \"But this year, it's on steroids because of COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her organization is offering one-on-one outreach to students to help them enroll or re-enroll in college. As part of that effort, Zargarpour and her colleagues conducted research to help them understand why students didn't go on to college during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students told us that it's a variety of things, including a lot of just life challenges,\" she says. \"Families being disrupted because of lack of work, families being disrupted because of the challenges of the illness itself, students having to take care of their young siblings, challenges with technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest question now: Will those students return to college? Experts say the further students get from their high school graduations, the less likely they are to enroll, because \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/04/29/846475740/excitement-and-uncertainty-students-question-their-college-plans\">life gets in the way\u003c/a>. But Zargarpour says she is hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will take a little bit of time for us to catch up to normal and better, but my heart can't bear to say all hope is lost for any student ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Spring+Numbers+Show+%27Dramatic%27+Drop+In+College+Enrollment&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Undergraduate college enrollment fell again this spring, down nearly 5% from a year ago. \"It's really the end of a truly frightening year for higher education,\" one researcher says.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1623397490,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1127},"headData":{"title":"Spring Numbers Show 'Dramatic' Drop In College Enrollment - MindShift","description":"Undergraduate college enrollment fell again this spring, down nearly 5% from a year ago. 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That means 727,000 fewer students, \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\">according to new data\u003c/a> from the National Student Clearinghouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's really dramatic,\" says Doug Shapiro, who leads the clearinghouse's research center. Fall enrollment numbers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/925831720/losing-a-generation-fall-college-enrollment-plummets-for-first-year-students\">had indicated things were bad\u003c/a>, with a 3.6% undergraduate decline compared with a year earlier, but experts were waiting to see if those students who held off in the fall would enroll in the spring. That didn't appear to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite all kinds of hopes and expectations that things would get better, they've only gotten worse in the spring,\" Shapiro says. \"It's really the end of a truly frightening year for higher education. There will be no easy fixes or quick bounce backs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall enrollment in undergraduate and graduate programs has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787909495/fewer-students-are-going-to-college-heres-why-that-matters\">trending downward\u003c/a> since around 2012, and that was true again this spring, \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/\">which saw a 3.5% decline\u003c/a> — seven times worse than the drop from spring 2019 to spring 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Student Clearinghouse attributed that decline entirely to undergraduates across all sectors, including for-profit colleges. Community colleges, which often enroll more low-income students and students of color, remained hardest hit by far, making up more than 65% of the total undergraduate enrollment losses this spring. On average, U.S. community colleges saw an enrollment drop of 9.5%, which translates to 476,000 fewer students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The enrollment landscape has completely shifted and changed, as though an earthquake has hit the ground,\" says Heidi Aldes, dean of enrollment management at Minneapolis College, a community college in Minnesota. She says her college's fall 2020 enrollment was down about 8% from the previous year, and spring 2021 enrollment was down about 11%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\"Less students are getting an education\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Based on her conversations with students, Aldes attributes the enrollment decline to a number of factors, including being online, the \"pandemic paralysis\" community members felt when COVID-19 first hit, and the financial situations families found themselves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many folks felt like they couldn't afford to\u003cem> not\u003c/em> work and so couldn't afford to go to school and lose that full-time income,\" Aldes says. \"There was so much uncertainty and unpredictability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disproportionately high number of students of color withdrew or decided to delay their educational goals, she says, adding to equity gaps that already exist in the Minneapolis area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure, there is a fiscal impact to the college, but that isn't where my brain goes,\" Aldes says. \"There's a decline, which means there are less students getting an education. That is the tragedy, that less students are getting an education, because we know how important education is to a successful future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help increase enrollment, her team is reaching out to the high school classes of 2020 and 2021, and they're contacting students who previously applied or previously enrolled and stopped attending. She says she's hopeful the college's in-person offerings — which now make up nearly 45% of its classes — will entice students to come back, and appeal to those who aren't interested in online courses. So far, enrollment numbers for fall 2021 are up by 1%. \"We are climbing back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A widening divide\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite overall enrollment declines nationally, graduate program enrollments were up by more than 120,000 students this spring. That means there are \u003cem>more \u003c/em>students who already have college degrees earning \u003cem>more \u003c/em>credentials, while, at the other end of the spectrum, students at the beginning of their higher ed careers are opting out — a grim picture of a widening gap in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of the educational equivalent of the rich getting richer,\" Shapiro says. \"Those gaps in education and skills will be baked into our economy, and those families' lives, for years to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The value of a college degree — and its impact on earning power and recession resilience — has only been reinforced by the pandemic. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans with a college degree were more likely to stay employed during the pandemic, and if they did lose a job, they were more likely to get hired again. Unemployment rates were higher for those without a degree or credential beyond high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Almost all of the income gains and the employment gains for the last decade have gone to people with higher education degrees and credentials,\" Shapiro says. \"Those who are getting squeezed out of college today, especially at community colleges, are just getting further and further away from being able to enjoy some of those benefits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the National Student Clearinghouse data, traditional college students, those 18 to 24, were the largest age group missing from undergraduate programs. That includes many students from the high school class of 2020, who graduated at the beginning of the pandemic. Additional research from the clearinghouse shows \u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/high-school-benchmarks/\">a 6.8% decline in college-going rates\u003c/a> among the class of 2020 compared with the class of 2019 — that's more than four times the decline between the classes of 2018 and 2019. College-going rates were worse for students at high-poverty high schools, which saw declines of more than 11%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For communities and organizations tasked with helping high school graduates transition and succeed in college, the job this year is exponentially harder. Students have always struggled to attend college: \"It's not new to us,\" says Nazy Zargarpour, who leads the Pomona Regional Learning Collaborative, which helps Southern California high school students enroll and graduate from college. \"But this year, it's on steroids because of COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her organization is offering one-on-one outreach to students to help them enroll or re-enroll in college. As part of that effort, Zargarpour and her colleagues conducted research to help them understand why students didn't go on to college during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students told us that it's a variety of things, including a lot of just life challenges,\" she says. \"Families being disrupted because of lack of work, families being disrupted because of the challenges of the illness itself, students having to take care of their young siblings, challenges with technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest question now: Will those students return to college? Experts say the further students get from their high school graduations, the less likely they are to enroll, because \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/04/29/846475740/excitement-and-uncertainty-students-question-their-college-plans\">life gets in the way\u003c/a>. But Zargarpour says she is hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will take a little bit of time for us to catch up to normal and better, but my heart can't bear to say all hope is lost for any student ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Spring+Numbers+Show+%27Dramatic%27+Drop+In+College+Enrollment&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57976/spring-numbers-show-dramatic-drop-in-college-enrollment","authors":["byline_mindshift_57976"],"categories":["mindshift_21345"],"tags":["mindshift_21261","mindshift_21305","mindshift_20966","mindshift_21344","mindshift_21343"],"featImg":"mindshift_57977","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57751":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57751","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57751","score":null,"sort":[1619677723000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tips-for-finding-your-way-to-a-high-paying-trade-job","title":"Tips for Finding Your Way to a (High-Paying) Trade Job","publishDate":1619677723,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Figuring out what to do with your life is a challenge for anyone. Students are often told to get their bachelor's degree and find their passion and they'll eventually be rewarded by landing their dream job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most people, it's not that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, Isis Harris in Portland, Ore., says, \"I kept hitting walls and I kept running into obstacles.\" Then she took a course designed to sample different jobs in construction, and while wiring a light bulb, a switch flipped in her head. Almost five years later, Isis is finishing up her apprenticeship to become a certified electrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn't aim to be in the construction industry, she says, but \"once I did and it clicked so well, I had no intention of ever looking back on anything else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of jobs out there like Isis's, that don't require a bachelor's degree. Whether you're looking for your first job or changing paths, here's what to know about getting a job in the trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>You can make good money working in the trades — and jobs are in demand\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"There are thousands of jobs that go unfilled every year because they can't find qualified people with both the skills and the interest to pursue them,\" says Carrie Akins, director for career and technology education for Calvert County Public Schools in Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these jobs aren't just available — they also pay well. With an associate degree, air traffic controllers made a median salary of $130,420 per year in 2020. Some other lucrative jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree? Construction managers ($97,180), aircraft mechanics ($66,680), plumbers ($56,330) and firefighters ($52,500). And those are just the median salaries. Depending on where you live, you could make more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isis Harris is constantly trying to get this message out to as many people as she can. \"Earning your own money and being able to take care of yourself and not have to depend on anybody else is so important when you're trying to put your life together,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It's not four-year college vs. the trades\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Getting an associate degree, doing an apprenticeship program or getting a certificate doesn't mean you can't get a bachelor's degree later — or vice versa. Nearly a million students currently enrolled in community college classes already have a bachelor's degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"College is a necessary tool for some careers, and it's a great way to continue to learn. But not every great career requires college,\" says Carrie Akins. Getting a four-year degree isn't a bad thing, she says, \"but you just want to make sure that you are taking the time to really think about why you're going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Think about who you want to be\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jobs shape our lives in lots of different ways. So as you're thinking about what you want to do for work, it's equally important to think about how you envision your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Torrence, president of Motlow State Community College in Tennessee, says his advice to his students — and his daughter, who is thinking about her path right now — is to ask themselves some questions: \"Where do you want to live? How do you want to live? Where do you want to take vacation? How do you want to dress? Who do you want your friends to be? What do you want to drive?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are big questions, but there's a good chance you have \u003cem>some\u003c/em> idea. Would you prefer working outdoors or in an office? Isis Harris says she did an honest assessment of her skills: \"What is it that I like about work? What are my strengths when I'm working? You know, what are my strengths just as an individual, period?\" She realized pretty quickly that she wanted to work with her hands — and use her knowledge. She found that as an electrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A note on \"following your passion\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of people are told to get out there and find their passion — but Mike Rowe, the host of the TV show \u003cem>Dirty Jobs\u003c/em>, says that's bad advice. If you're heading out into the world in search of your passion, he says, \"then you might as well go out into the world and start looking for your soul mate. It's a needle in a haystack. Doesn't mean you're not going to find it. But in this world, I'm all for stacking the deck in my favor.\" Instead of waiting for your dream job, he suggests going where the opportunities are and building from there. The big lesson from \u003cem>Dirty Jobs\u003c/em>, Rowe says, \"was don't follow your passion. Bring it with you wherever you go, but don't follow it around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Make a plan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are several ways to get into the trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get an apprenticeship, like Isis Harris did. Employers, local trade associations and other professional groups, such as unions, can connect you to training programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community colleges also offer lots of great programs to catapult you into a career in the trades. Look at their job placement rates to see how well their students land jobs after they graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most community colleges are inexpensive, while for-profit trade schools have higher price tags. 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Some other lucrative jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree? Construction managers ($97,180), aircraft mechanics ($66,680), plumbers ($56,330) and firefighters ($52,500). And those are just the median salaries. Depending on where you live, you could make more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isis Harris is constantly trying to get this message out to as many people as she can. \"Earning your own money and being able to take care of yourself and not have to depend on anybody else is so important when you're trying to put your life together,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It's not four-year college vs. the trades\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Getting an associate degree, doing an apprenticeship program or getting a certificate doesn't mean you can't get a bachelor's degree later — or vice versa. Nearly a million students currently enrolled in community college classes already have a bachelor's degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"College is a necessary tool for some careers, and it's a great way to continue to learn. But not every great career requires college,\" says Carrie Akins. Getting a four-year degree isn't a bad thing, she says, \"but you just want to make sure that you are taking the time to really think about why you're going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Think about who you want to be\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Jobs shape our lives in lots of different ways. So as you're thinking about what you want to do for work, it's equally important to think about how you envision your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Torrence, president of Motlow State Community College in Tennessee, says his advice to his students — and his daughter, who is thinking about her path right now — is to ask themselves some questions: \"Where do you want to live? How do you want to live? Where do you want to take vacation? How do you want to dress? Who do you want your friends to be? What do you want to drive?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are big questions, but there's a good chance you have \u003cem>some\u003c/em> idea. Would you prefer working outdoors or in an office? Isis Harris says she did an honest assessment of her skills: \"What is it that I like about work? What are my strengths when I'm working? You know, what are my strengths just as an individual, period?\" She realized pretty quickly that she wanted to work with her hands — and use her knowledge. She found that as an electrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A note on \"following your passion\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of people are told to get out there and find their passion — but Mike Rowe, the host of the TV show \u003cem>Dirty Jobs\u003c/em>, says that's bad advice. If you're heading out into the world in search of your passion, he says, \"then you might as well go out into the world and start looking for your soul mate. It's a needle in a haystack. Doesn't mean you're not going to find it. But in this world, I'm all for stacking the deck in my favor.\" Instead of waiting for your dream job, he suggests going where the opportunities are and building from there. The big lesson from \u003cem>Dirty Jobs\u003c/em>, Rowe says, \"was don't follow your passion. Bring it with you wherever you go, but don't follow it around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Make a plan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are several ways to get into the trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get an apprenticeship, like Isis Harris did. Employers, local trade associations and other professional groups, such as unions, can connect you to training programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community colleges also offer lots of great programs to catapult you into a career in the trades. 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