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

Michael J. Weiss, Alyssa Ratledge, Colleen Sommo and Himani Gupta

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, vol. 11, issue 3, 253-97

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

JEL-codes: H75 I23 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.20170430
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