Understanding the Effects of Rurality and Socioeconomic Status on College Attendance and Institutional Choice in the United States

Koricich, Andrew; Chen, Xi; Hughes, Rodney P.

doi:10.1353/rhe.2018.0004

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“…Our results show that rural high school seniors from 2004 lagged behind their nonrural peers in both college enrollment and degree completion. Our study complements earlier findings on the importance of socioeconomic status for rural students (Koricich et al 2018) by showing that when adjusted for socioeconomic differences, enrollment differences diminish. Specifically, rural students have lower levels of parental educational attainment and family income than nonrural students.…”

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“…The financial crisis impacted rural communities' employment, wages, and family finances-all of which may have altered both student motivations to complete their degree and parental ability to pay for it (Shapiro et al 2015;Sherman and Sage 2011). While socioeconomic status is often discussed in an urban context, poverty is also related to social processes and structures in rural areas, including education (Koricich et al 2018). In our study, even rural students who enrolled immediately after high school in 2004 likely would have had to contend with effects of the recession prior to completion of their degree.…”

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“…For the more than 60 million Americans who live in rural areas (US Census Bureau 2010), such research is vital to understanding the causes and consequences of changing social and educational contexts. Among high school students, many of whom will be considering if and how college fits into their future plans, more than 18% come from rural areas (Koricich et al 2018). Results from this research will inform educational policy and practice to close educational opportunity gaps for this vital student population and help to ground reenergized discourses about rurality and education in relation to a variety of social and political phenomena.…”

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“…American Journal of Education valuable understanding of the newer context (Koricich et al 2018;Means et al 2016), a direct comparison to prior research through replication of past work with newer data would help to understand the way that shifts in American society have shaped rural college going. This knowledge would help researchers and policy makers to understand whether more recently observed trends stem from the fundamental nature of rural communities, broader shifts in the social, political, and economic landscape, or some combination of the two.…”

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Narrowed Gaps and Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities in Postsecondary Outcomes over Time

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Empirical studies have concluded that rural students experience lower rates of college enrollment and degree completion compared to their nonrural peers, but this literature needs to be expanded and updated for a continually changing context. This article examines the rural-nonrural disparities in students' postsecondary trajectories, influences, and outcomes. By comparing results to past research using similar national data and an identical design, we are able to examine change over time. Results show narrowed gaps from the 1990s into the 2000s, but with rural students still facing persistent challenges and experiencing lower average rates of college enrollment and degree completion. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, there has been a significant national conversation about the relationship among rurality, college education, social class, and politics (e.g., Brown and Fisher 2017; Means 2018; Pappano 2017). Such dicussions have often noted that the educational pathways of rural students differ from those of their nonrural peers (e.g., Barcus and Brunn 2010; Pierson and Hanson 2015; Roscigno et al. 2006). On occassion, discussions of rurality have even taken care to note that variations in educational trajectories stem in part from differences in college-going opportunities in rural areas, which are often related to suppressed postsecondary attendance and completion (e.g., Byun et al. 2012; Koricich et al. 2018; Turley 2009). However, when educators, journalists, scholars, and others use educational research to inform conversations about the multiple and complicated influences of rurality on college going and degree attainment, they find a literature base that is limited in its ability to

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“…Rural students in the United States face large academic gaps in graduating from high school (Dupéré et al, 2019;Johnson, Strange, & Madden, 2010) and in going on to attend college (Byun, Irvin, & Meece, 2015;Koricich, Chen, & Hughes, 2018). The recent Every Student Succeeds Act included a call to address the status of rural education in the United States to better support rural schools and their students (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2016).…”

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How Can They Know What They Don’t Know? The Beliefs and Experiences of Rural School Counselors about STEM Career Advising

Grimes

Arrastía-Chisholm

Bright

2019

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Many factors contribute to the educational challenges students face in rural areas, including a lack of funding compared to urban and suburban schools and a lack of role models pursuing postsecondary education. School counselors in all settings are trained to provide education to students about the postsecondary options in demand. College and career counseling with students and families in rural areas requires unique understanding of the rural characteristics that shape community life and family dynamics. National attention on rural education has highlighted a particular need for advising into STEM career fields. Using a phenomenological approach, the researchers examine the beliefs and experiences of eight school counselors working in rural schools regarding their lived experiences of advising students in their rural areas about careers in STEM. Three themes about STEM-focused career development emerged from the interviews with the school counselors, a lack of opportunities and resources, challenging local influences, and ideas for much needed place-based innovations. Implications are discussed for several key players with the ability to improve and increase STEM advising for rural students. Examples include the following: for practicing school counselors, intentional career counseling efforts that include rural families; for counselor educators, the addition of rural field placements and assignments focused on rural student career needs; and for rural communities, combining the school counselor’s efforts with local business and industry to highlight and increase STEM career awareness for students and their families.

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Doing the Same (or More) With Less: The Challenges Regional Public Universities Face in Serving Rural Populations

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Bishop³

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According to the 2010 U.S. Census, nearly 60 million Americans live in rural places, which represents approximately one-fifth of the total national population (United States Census Bureau, 2015). These communities are home to unique cultures, and they are the lifeblood of critical infrastructures that provide food, energy, and transit for the rest of the country. Despite playing an essential role in national prosperity, rural communities have faced persistent social and economic challenges. Postsecondary education is a central issue for rural communities, especially given the connection between educational attainment and economic opportunity, yet this is a topic that remains understudied. This chapter highlights existing research on rural students' college choices, as well as how living in an education desert, defined below, impacts postsecondary options and outcomes. Next, federal data are used to demonstrate disparities in the types of institutions

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Understanding the Effects of Rurality and Socioeconomic Status on College Attendance and Institutional Choice in the United States

Cited by 83 publications

References 11 publications

Narrowed Gaps and Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities in Postsecondary Outcomes over Time

Narrowed Gaps and Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities in Postsecondary Outcomes over Time

How Can They Know What They Don’t Know? The Beliefs and Experiences of Rural School Counselors about STEM Career Advising

Doing the Same (or More) With Less: The Challenges Regional Public Universities Face in Serving Rural Populations

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