The Impact of Financial Aid on Associate Degree Attainment for Rural Community College Students: A Comparison of Rural, Urban, and Suburban Patterns

IF 1.7 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Community College Review Pub Date : 2020-07-03 DOI:10.1177/0091552120935975

Lijing Yang, S. Venezia

{"title":"The Impact of Financial Aid on Associate Degree Attainment for Rural Community College Students: A Comparison of Rural, Urban, and Suburban Patterns","authors":"Lijing Yang, S. Venezia","doi":"10.1177/0091552120935975","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Increasing rural community college degree attainment is very important to foster rural areas’ economic and social well-being. Rural community colleges differ greatly from their suburban and urban counterparts in financial aid patterns and student bodies. However, existing literature is vacant with respect to student financial aid and degree attainment in rural community colleges. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between financial aid and associate degree attainment for rural community college students and compare the financing patterns of the three locales. Method: Using data from Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09), we performed a series of logistic regression models that include financial aid variables and control variables from psychological, sociological, organizational, and internationalist perspectives. Results: We found rural community college students exceeded other locales in degree attainment. Logistic regression results reveal insignificant roles of Pell Grants and Federal Subsidized Loans, and negative role of Federal Unsubsidized Loans in associate degree attainment for rural community college students. Contributions: The results suggest that public subsidies, such as Pell Grants, were not sufficient to cover rural students’ unmet need for financing degree attainment, and that rural students are more cost-conscious in borrowing and spending than their suburban and urban counterparts.","PeriodicalId":46564,"journal":{"name":"Community College Review","volume":"48 1","pages":"423 - 454"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0091552120935975","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Community College Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0091552120935975","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Abstract

Objective: Increasing rural community college degree attainment is very important to foster rural areas’ economic and social well-being. Rural community colleges differ greatly from their suburban and urban counterparts in financial aid patterns and student bodies. However, existing literature is vacant with respect to student financial aid and degree attainment in rural community colleges. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between financial aid and associate degree attainment for rural community college students and compare the financing patterns of the three locales. Method: Using data from Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/09), we performed a series of logistic regression models that include financial aid variables and control variables from psychological, sociological, organizational, and internationalist perspectives. Results: We found rural community college students exceeded other locales in degree attainment. Logistic regression results reveal insignificant roles of Pell Grants and Federal Subsidized Loans, and negative role of Federal Unsubsidized Loans in associate degree attainment for rural community college students. Contributions: The results suggest that public subsidies, such as Pell Grants, were not sufficient to cover rural students’ unmet need for financing degree attainment, and that rural students are more cost-conscious in borrowing and spending than their suburban and urban counterparts.

查看原文本刊更多论文

经济资助对农村社区大学生获得副学士学位的影响:农村、城市和郊区模式的比较

目的：提高农村社区大学学历对促进农村经济和社会发展具有重要意义。农村社区大学在资助模式和学生群体方面与郊区和城市社区大学有很大不同。然而，关于农村社区大学的学生资助和学位获得，现有文献是空白的。本研究的目的是检验农村社区大学学生的助学金与副学士学位的关系，并比较三个地区的助学金模式。方法：利用《初学研究生纵向研究》（BPS:04/09）的数据，我们从心理学、社会学、组织学和国际主义的角度进行了一系列逻辑回归模型，包括资助变量和控制变量。结果：我们发现，农村社区大学生的学位获得率超过了其他地区。Logistic回归结果显示，佩尔助学金和联邦补贴贷款在农村社区大学生获得副学士学位方面的作用不显著，而联邦无补贴贷款在副学士学位中的作用为负。贡献：研究结果表明，佩尔助学金等公共补贴不足以满足农村学生未满足的学位资助需求，而且农村学生在借贷和支出方面比郊区和城市学生更注重成本。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Community College Review EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

7.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Community College Review (CCR) has led the nation for over 35 years in the publication of scholarly, peer-reviewed research and commentary on community colleges. CCR welcomes manuscripts dealing with all aspects of community college administration, education, and policy, both within the American higher education system as well as within the higher education systems of other countries that have similar tertiary institutions. All submitted manuscripts undergo a blind review. When manuscripts are not accepted for publication, we offer suggestions for how they might be revised. The ultimate intent is to further discourse about community colleges, their students, and the educators and administrators who work within these institutions.