PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Diana Strumbos
AU  - Donna Linderman
AU  - Carson C. Hicks
TI  - Postsecondary Pathways Out of Poverty: City University of New York Accelerated Study in Associate Programs and the Case for National Policy
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.06
DP  - 2018 Feb 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 100--117
VI  - 4
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/100.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/100.full
AB  - A postsecondary education holds the promise of higher lifetime earnings and social mobility, but too many low-income students never complete their degrees. We propose a set of policy recommendations based on the highly effective Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) at the City University of New York (CUNY). CUNY ASAP is a comprehensive and integrated program that addresses multiple barriers to student success by providing students with enhanced advising as well as academic and career services, financial support, and a highly structured degree pathway. ASAP has been shown to have large positive effects on associate degree graduation rates and to cost less per graduate than regular college services. A national policy based on the ASAP model could serve as a highly effective anti-poverty strategy.