Public two-year colleges serve an increasingly important
role in meeting the growing demand for an educated workforce
in the United States. Students induced to enroll in college
by changes in the costs or returns to higher education are
more likely to attend a two-year institution and these schools
have absorbed much of the growth in college attendance
over the past several decades (Bound, Lovenheim, & Turner,
2010). In January 2015, President Obama released a proposal
to further expand access to community college programs by