College Proximity: Mapping Access to Opportunity
College Proximity: Mapping Access to Opportunity
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DOI：
10.1177/003804070908200202
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发表时间：
2009-04
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
R. N. Turley
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作者：
R. N. Turley
学生决定是否上大学以及在哪里上大学的过程通常基于独立于学生地理环境的大学选择模型。然而，能否在家附近上大学往往是美国高中生，尤其是少数族裔和社会经济弱势群体考虑的最重要因素之一。这里介绍的研究绘制了全国高中生样本的居住地，以及每个学生通勤距离内所有大学的位置，并表明高中生附近有很多大学。此外，在考虑了重要的学生和邮政编码因素后，研究发现，附近每增加一所大学，申请大学（尤其是四年制大学）的几率就会小幅但显着增加。这些发现表明，研究人员应该停止将大学选择过程视为与地点无关的过程，而开始将这一过程置于其发生的地理环境中。
The process by which students decide whether and where to attend college has been based most commonly on a college-choice model that is independent of the students' geographic context. However, the ability to attend college close to home is often among the most important factors that U.S. high school students, especially minorities and the socioeconomically disadvantaged, consider. The study presented here mapped the place of residence of a national sample of high school seniors, as well as the location of all colleges within commuting distance of each student, and showed that seniors have a wide range of colleges in proximity. Furthermore, after taking account of important student and zip code-level factors, the study found that each additional college in proximity is associated with a small but significant increase in the odds of applying to college, especially a four-year college. These findings suggest that researchers should stop treating the college-choice process as though it were independent of location and start situating this process within the geographic context in which it occurs.