%0 Journal Article
%T Academic Performance in Community Colleges: The Influences of Part
%A Di Xu
%J American Educational Research Journal
%@ 1935-1011
%D 2019
%R 10.3102/0002831218796131
%X Understanding the relative impacts of part-time adjuncts in community colleges is highly policy-relevant, partly because community colleges rely on part-time faculty heavily and partly because community colleges assume a critical role in addressing the national equity agenda by disproportionately serving underrepresented groups. This study uses individual transcript data to explore how initial exposure to a particular field of study with part-time adjuncts influences student performance in current and subsequent course performance in community colleges. To address selection bias, I use two empirical strategies, a two-way fixed effects model and an instrumental variable approach. The results consistently suggest that part-time adjuncts are associated with higher grades in contemporaneous courses but have negative impacts on subsequent course performance
%K adjunct faculty
%K community colleges
%K fixed effects
%K instrumental variable approach
%K student outcomes
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0002831218796131