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Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Andrew C. Barr (author); Kelli A. Bird (author); Benjamin L. Castleman (author); William Skimmyhorn (author)
Genre:: grey literature
Subject:: veterans education; educational attainment; college completion; inequality; Post-secondary education; Inequality; Program and policy effects; Race, ethnicity and culture

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Abstract:: Despite broad public interest in Veterans' education, there is relatively little evidence documenting the postsecondary trajectories of military service members after they return to civilian life. In the current report we investigate how U.S. Army service member college enrollment and progression trends compare to a similar population of civilians, using Army administrative personnel data merged with administrative records from the National Student Clearinghouse and the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS) of 2002. Civilians were nearly three times as likely to enroll in college within one year of high school graduation (or one year of separation). Civilians were also much more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree within the period of study than either of the Army samples. While members of minority race/ethnicity groups in both military samples enroll at higher rates than their white counterparts, racial/ethnic minorities do not graduate at higher rates than their white counterparts. We discuss policy implications of our analyses in the final section of our paper.

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Andrew C. Barr, Kelli A. Bird, Benjamin L. Castleman, et al., "A comparison of postsecondary outcomes for Army service members, Veterans, and civilians" (2019). EdWorkingPapers.com Archive. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:956652/

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A comparison of postsecondary outcomes for Army service members, Veterans, and civilians