Alicia C. Dowd

TL;DR: The authors used logistic regression to predict persistence to the second year of college and associate's degree attainment over five years using the National Center for Education Statistics' Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS 90/94) data.

TL;DR: This paper showed that student debt negatively affects the graduate school enrollment of holders in STEM fields, where debt is measured by a student's cumulative undergraduate debt relative to the mean debt of his or her baccalaureate graduating cohort.

TL;DR: Alicia C. Dowd as discussed by the authors draws attention to the challenges facing community colleges as they seek to balance their roles as both gateways and gatekeepers with their multiple missions, which include meeting the diverse needs of students at the postsecondary level and responding to the changing educational and economic needs of U.S. society.

TL;DR: A longstanding debate continues concerning whether community colleges democratize education by expanding enrollment or divert students from attaining a bachelor's degree as discussed by the authors, and the debate has been extended to a broader range of issues.

TL;DR: The admissions practices of the most highly selective colleges and universities of the United States are under scrutiny for their failure to enroll poor and working-class students (Douthat, 2005; Karabel, 2005, Klein, 2005). This negative attention has been spearheaded by findings reported in two important books examining the shortage of low-income students at the pinnacle of American higher education, Equity and Excellence in Higher Education by William Bowen, Martin Kurzweil, and Eugene Tobin (2005) and America's Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher education, edited by Richard Kah