@article{umbach_tuchmayer_clayton_smith_2019, title={Transfer Student Success: Exploring Community College, University, and Individual Predictors}, volume={43}, ISSN={["1521-0413"]}, DOI={10.1080/10668926.2018.1520658}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT This paper investigates community college transfer success by exploring the relationship between individual and institutional-level characteristics at students’ two- and four-year institutions. Using statewide administrative data from North Carolina, this study employs a cross-classified multilevel model to investigate the impact that a student’s community college and four-year transfer institution have on post-transfer success. Our findings offer important and compelling insights into the relationship between transfer students, the community college they attended, the four-year transfer institution, and educational outcomes. While individual effects were small, we find several institutional factors associated with student success. Attendance at a large community college or having a public university in the same county as their community college is positively associated with student success, whereas size of the university is negatively related to grades during the first year and persistence to the second year. While the four-year institution’s selectivity is negatively related to many of our outcomes, transferring to a Historically Black College or University is positively associated with GPA, college persistence, and degree completion.}, number={9}, journal={COMMUNITY COLLEGE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE}, author={Umbach, Paul D. and Tuchmayer, Jeremy B. and Clayton, Ashley B. and Smith, Kathleen N.}, year={2019}, pages={599–617} }
 @article{rockenbach_hudson_tuchmayer_2014, title={Fostering Meaning, Purpose, and Enduring Commitments to Community Service in College: A Multidimensional Conceptual Model}, volume={85}, ISSN={["1538-4640"]}, DOI={10.1353/jhe.2014.0014}, abstractNote={Using longitudinal data collected as part of the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, this study employed structural equation modeling to examine how multiple dimensions of college students’ service participation shape life goals oriented toward meaning, purpose, and citizenship and subsequent service engagement. The findings suggest that life goals and subsequent service participation are a function of students’ citizenship predispositions, the intensity and context of service involvement, and, importantly, the benefits that students derive from their service participation. Becoming a more compassionate and socially aware person as a result of service work is positively linked to committing oneself to a meaningful life marked by helping others, civic engagement, and service.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION}, author={Rockenbach, Alyssa Bryant and Hudson, Tara D. and Tuchmayer, Jeremy B.}, year={2014}, pages={312–338} }