ASAP Student Address and Neighborhood Mapping€¦ · alex tavares . evaluation and data...

ALEX TAVARES EVALUATION AND DATA COORDINATOR | CUNY ASAP MAPS CREATED BY: ALEC MILLER, SUMMER 2016 INTERN | CUNY ASAP

ASAP Student Address and Neighborhood Mapping SUMMER 2017

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ASAP Total Enrollment and Graduate Mapping Summer 2017

The rigors of attending college can be a challenging experience. It can be even more challenging for students who live in neighborhoods with low median incomes, low rates of educational attainment, and high crime, which can create barriers to student success and college retention. Students from these neighborhoods may be less academically prepared for college level work, and may be more likely to come from families where the cost of college is difficult to afford and the day to day needs to earn a living compete with the demands of college. Students from neighborhoods with low rates of educational attainment are likely to be the first in their family to attend college and may not have the benefit of family and social networks familiar with college that can help students be successful. Students from communities with high rates of foreign born residents may also have language barriers and/or difficulty navigating the college system if they are a first-generation college student.

Students in Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) at the City University of New York (CUNY) come from all parts of NYC and surrounding areas, and neighborhoods with varying demographics. As the program continues to grow, there is an increased interest in understanding more about ASAP students’ environments and possible challenges they may encounter that can represent risk-factors toward college success. The following maps provide information with regard to where ASAP students live throughout the city, and the demographics of the neighborhoods in which they reside.

We created maps for all enrolled ASAP students from cohort 1 through cohort 9 (N = 12,737), and parallel maps for ASAP three-year graduates1 (N = 4,547) from cohort 1 through cohort 6 (all cohorts who completed three years in the program as of when the maps were created). ASAP student data come from CUNY’s Institutional Research Database (IRDB) and included home addresses, gender, ethnicity, and other student characteristics. Neighborhood demographic data come from the American Community Survey, and neighborhood crime statistics from New York Police Department (NYPD) data.

ASAP used CARTO DB software, which allows for the plotting of student address based on longitude/ latitude. The software also provides the ability to layer neighborhood, zip code, and police precinct boundaries with plotted student address and include pertinent demographic, income, education, and crime rate information, to give a more contextual view of the makeup of the neighborhoods in which students live.

Given the wealth and breadth of data available to us, we wanted to answer a few questions about ASAP students: (1) In what NYC neighborhoods are ASAP students concentrated? (2) What is the proximity of where they live in relation to their college location? (3) What is the neighborhood breakdown of ASAP students by ethnicity? (4) What are the demographics of the neighborhoods where students are concentrated, including median income, rate of high school

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diplomas earned, Bachelor’s degree attainment rates, unemployment rates, foreign born rates, and total crime?, and (5) How does the distribution of graduates by neighborhood compare to that of all students?

Findings

The maps show that ASAP students are represented across the NYC area with greater concentrations in certain neighborhoods and regions. At some colleges, many of the attendees live in relative close proximity of the college they attend, whereas at some other colleges the attendees, are much more spread out across the city. ASAP students largely reflect the ethnic breakdown of the neighborhoods they reside in. A high number of ASAP students are concentrated in neighborhoods with low-median incomes, low Bachelor’s degree attainment rates, high rates of foreign-born residents, and neighborhoods with high crime rates. Despite these challenging demographics that present barriers to college retention and success, there is a similar representation of ASAP graduates who live in high risk neighborhoods compared to ASAP graduates who live neighborhoods with less social and environmental risk factors. 1 Graduate maps only include the original six ASAP community colleges – Borough of Manhattan (BMCC), Bronx, Hostos, Kingsborough, LaGuardia, and Queensborough. ASAP began at Medgar Evers College in Fall 2014, and at New York City College of Technology, College of Staten Island and John Jay in Fall 2015. WHAT IS ASAP? Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is a comprehensive program for students pursuing their associate degrees at the City University of New York (CUNY). ASAP is designed to help participating students earn their associate degrees as quickly as possible, with the goal of graduating at least 50 percent of students within three years. The program is able to reach this goal by providing its students with structured and wide-ranging supports, including financial resources (tuition waivers for students in receipt of financial aid with a gap need, textbook assistance, and New York City Transit MetroCards), structured pathways to support academic momentum (full-time enrollment, block scheduled first-year courses, immediate and continuous enrollment in developmental education, winter and summer course-taking), and support services such as comprehensive and personalized advisement, tutoring, career development services, and early engagement opportunities to build a connected community.

WHERE IS ASAP? CUNY community colleges: Borough of Manhattan, Bronx, Hostos, Kingsborough, LaGuardia and Queensborough (launched fall 2007)

CUNY senior colleges: Medgar Evers College (launched fall 2014), College of Staten Island and New York City College of Technology (launched fall 2015)

WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Full-time, associate degree seeking students with up to two developmental course needs are eligible for ASAP.

In addition, ASAP students must be New York City residents or eligible for in-state tuition, and must enroll in an ASAP-approved major (most majors are supported). ASAP students can enter as first-time freshmen or as continuing or transfer students with up to 15 credits.

For more information, please visit: www.cuny.edu/asap

Table of Contents ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS AND GRADUATES PLOTTED ADDRESSES ................................................................................................... 2

ASAP FALL 2007-SPRING 2016 ENROLLED STUDENTS HEAT MAP .................................................................................................................... 2 ASAP FALL 2007-SPRING 2013 GRADUATES\ NON-GRADUATES ..................................................................................................................... 3

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS AND GRADUATES PLOTTED ADDRESSES, BY COLLEGE .............................................................................. 4

ASAP STUDENTS FALL 2007 - SPRING 2016 - ENROLLED STUDENTS BY COLLEGE ................................................................................................. 4 ASAP FALL 2007-SPRING 2013 GRADUATES, BY COLLEGE .............................................................................................................................. 5

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS AND GRADUATES PLOTTED ADDRESSES, BY ETHNICITY ............................................................................ 6

ASAP 2007 - SPRING 2016 - ENROLLED STUDENTS BY ETHNICITY ..................................................................................................................... 6 ASAP FALL 2007- SPRING 2013 GRADUATES, BY ETHNICITY ........................................................................................................................... 7

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS AND GRADUATES COUNT, BY ZIP CODE .................................................................................................... 8

ASAP FALL 2007- SPRING 2016 – ENROLLED STUDENT COUNT BY ZIP CODE...................................................................................................... 8 ASAP FALL 2007- SPRING 2013 GRADUATE COUNT BY ZIP CODE ..................................................................................................................... 9

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS, NEIGHBORHOOD MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME .................................................................................. 10

ASAP FALL 2007-SPRING 2016, MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME BY NEIGHBORHOOD ........................................................................................ 10

GRADUATES, NEIGHBORHOOD HS DIPLOMA EARNED RATE ............................................................................................................ 11

ASAP FALL 2007-SPRING 2016, HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA BY NEIGHBORHOOD ................................................................................................. 11

GRADUATES, NEIGHBORHOOD BACHELOR’S DEGREE EARNED RATE ............................................................................................... 12

ASAP FALL 2007-SPRING 2016, BACHELOR’S DEGREE BY NEIGHBORHOOD ..................................................................................................... 12

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS, NEIGHBORHOOD FOREIGN BORN RATE ................................................................................................. 13

ASAP FALL 2007-SPRING 2016, FOREIGN BORN BY NEIGHBORHOOD ............................................................................................................. 13

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS, POLICE PRECINCT TOTAL CRIMES........................................................................................................... 14

ASAP 2007-SPRING 2016 STUDENTS - TOTAL CRIME BY POLICE PRECINCT ...................................................................................................... 14

ASAP MAPPING DATA RESOURCES .................................................................................................................................................. 15

APPENDIX: ALL STUDENTS – INDIVIDUAL ASAP COLLEGE MAPS ..................................................................................................... 16

BMCC ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 BRONX ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 CSI ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 HOSTOS ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 MEC ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 LAGUARDIA ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 23 NYCCT .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 24 QBCC .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25

All Enrolled Students and Graduates plotted addresses ASAP Fall 2007-Spring 2016 Enrolled Students Heat Map

This map is a heat map based on student home addresses plotted by longitude/latitude and shows the concentration of ASAP students home locations across the NYC area. The darker areas represent a higher concentration of students in those areas. The map shows that ASAP students come from all across the city, with heavy concentrations of students in northern Manhattan, central/south Bronx, Central Brooklyn and northern stretches of Queens.

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ASAP Fall 2007-Spring 2013 Graduates\ Non-Graduates

This map includes the cohorts that have completed at least three years in ASAP (Cohort 1 through Cohort 6) and highlights all student graduates (green dots) and non-graduates (red dots). The map shows that ASAP graduates are distributed similarly across the city as non-graduates and are strongly represented across the city regardless of the neighborhood in which they reside.

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All Enrolled Students and Graduates plotted addresses, by College ASAP Students Fall 2007 - Spring 2016 - Enrolled Students by College

This map shows where ASAP students live, color-coded based on the college they attend. At some colleges, many of their students live in relative close proximity to their location, including Bronx, Hostos, Queens, KBCC and MEC. At other colleges, many of their students are spread out across the NYC area, including BMCC, LaGuardia, John Jay, and NYCCT. Most CSI students reside in Staten Island and Brooklyn (See individual college maps in Appendix).

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ASAP Fall 2007-Spring 2013 Graduates, by College

This map shows ASAP graduates only, color coded based on the college they attended. The graduate concentrations are similar to the patterns of the enrolled student map.

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All Enrolled Students and Graduates plotted addresses, by Ethnicity ASAP 2007 - Spring 2016 - Enrolled Students by Ethnicity

This map shows where ASAP students live, color-coded based on their ethnicity. ASAP students reflect the ethnic breakdown and diversity of their neighborhoods. Latino students (purple dots) show a concentration in the Bronx, upper Manhattan, west queens and upper Brooklyn. Black students (blue dots) are concentrated in central Brooklyn, west Brooklyn and Queens areas. White students (orange dots) are concentrated in South Brooklyn and throughout parts of Queens. Asian students (green dots) are also concentrated in south Brooklyn and throughout parts of Queens.

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ASAP Fall 2007- Spring 2013 Graduates, by Ethnicity

This map shows ASAP graduates, by ethnicity. Similar to the all enrolled students by ethnicity map, graduates closely parallel the ethnic concentration in their neighborhood.

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All Enrolled Students and Graduates count, by Zip Code ASAP Fall 2007- Spring 2016 – Enrolled Student Count by Zip Code

This map shows the concentration of where all ASAP students live, by zip code. Darker colors represent a higher concentration of ASAP students in their respective zip code. The highest concentrated zip code areas include 10467 (n=255) and 10456 (n = 272) in the Bronx and 11368 (n = 261) in Queens.

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ASAP Fall 2007- Spring 2013 Graduate count by Zip Code

This map shows the concentration of graduates, by zip code. Darker colors represent a higher concentration of ASAP graduates in their respective zip code. The highest concentrated zip code areas include 10467 (n=57) and 10452 (n = 50) in the Bronx and 11368 (n = 48) in Queens.

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All Enrolled Students, Neighborhood Median Household Income Low median income can represent a financial barrier to college retention and success. Students may need to work more to make ends meet, making it difficult to attend college full-time and build momentum. The median income map below shows two levels of data. One level represents the median income of NYC neighborhoods, ranging from a low of approximately 34K (yellow) to a high of 118K (dark blue). The second layer is a heat map of where ASAP students live. Layering ASAP student address plot points with neighborhood median income allows us to view the socio-economic status of the neighborhoods where ASAP students reside.

ASAP Fall 2007-Spring 2016, Median Household Income by Neighborhood

Most ASAP students come from low-median income neighborhoods.

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Graduates, Neighborhood HS Diploma Earned Rate The HS Diploma Earned map show two levels of data. One level represents the high school diploma earned rate of NYC neighborhoods, ranging from a low of approximately 59% (yellow) to a high of 97% (dark blue). The second layer shows the plot points of where ASAP graduates live. Layering ASAP graduate address plot points with high school diploma earned rates allows us to view basic educational level attainment of the neighborhoods where ASAP graduates reside. Research has shown that there is a correlation of lower income in communities with lower rates of high school diplomas earned.

ASAP Fall 2007-Spring 2016, High School Diploma by Neighborhood

There is a high concentration of ASAP students and graduates in communities with low high school diplomas earned, including central and south Bronx.

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Graduates, Neighborhood Bachelor’s Degree Earned Rate The Bachelor’s Degree Earned map show two levels of data. One level represents the Bachelor’s degree attainment rate of NYC neighborhoods, ranging from a low of approximately 16% (yellow) to a high of 81% (dark blue). The second layer shows the plot points of where ASAP graduates live. Layering ASAP graduate address plot points with Bachelor’s degree attainment rates allows us to view college level educational level attainment of the neighborhoods of where ASAP graduates reside. There is a correlation of higher income in communities with higher rates of Bachelor’s degrees earned.

ASAP Fall 2007-Spring 2016, Bachelor’s Degree by Neighborhood

There is a strong concentration of ASAP students and graduates in neighborhoods with low Bachelor degree attainment rates, especially in central and south Bronx, west queens, and central Brooklyn.

BACHELORS DEGREE EARNED RATES

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All Enrolled Students, Neighborhood Foreign Born Rate Neighborhood rates of high foreign born residents can signify that the student’s parents or the students themselves are foreign born. First generation college students may have a more difficult time navigating the college culture and processes. The Foreign-Born map show two levels of data. One level represents the rate of NYC neighborhoods with Foreign Born residents, ranging from a low of approximately 20% (yellow) to a high of 64% (dark blue). The second layer shows the plot points of where ASAP students live.

ASAP Fall 2007-Spring 2016, Foreign Born by Neighborhood

There is a strong foreign born concentration in neighborhoods in Queens, specifically in Sunnyside and Elmhurst areas, where a large concentration of ASAP students reside.

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All Enrolled Students, Police Precinct Total Crimes Neighborhoods with high drug and crime rates can represent a challenge to college retention and success. The Total Crime map shows two levels of data. One level shows the NYC neighborhood map showing total crime concentration by police precinct, layered with the heat map of where ASAP students live. Darker colors represent neighborhoods with higher crimes.

*Total crimes include: Burglary, Felony Assault, Grand Larceny, Grand Larceny of Motor vehicles, rape, and robbery.

ASAP 2007-Spring 2016 Students - Total Crime by Police Precinct

Many ASAP students reside in high crime areas. Despite this, many ASAP students in high crime neighborhoods attain their associate degree.

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ASAP Mapping Data Resources

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Appendix: All Students – Individual ASAP College Maps BMCC

NYC map of where ASAP BMCC students live, by student address. BMCC students are spread out across the NYC area.

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Bronx

NYC map of where ASAP Bronx students live, by student address. Most Bronx students live in the Bronx and upper Manhattan.

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CSI

NYC map of where ASAP CSI students live, by student address. Most CSI students live in Staten Island and Brooklyn.

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Hostos

NYC map of where ASAP Hostos students live, by student address. Most Hostos students live in the Bronx and upper Manhattan.

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John Jay

NYC map of where ASAP John Jay students live, by student address. John Jay students are spread out across the NYC area.

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KBCC

NYC map of where ASAP KBCC students live, by student address. Most KBCC students live in Brooklyn.

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MEC

NYC map of where ASAP Medgar Evers students live, by student address. Most MEC students live in Brooklyn.

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LaGuardia

NYC map of where ASAP LaGuardia students live, by student address. LaGuardia students are spread out across the NYC area.

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NYCCT

NYC map of where ASAP NYC City Tech students live, by student address. NYCCT students are spread out across the NYC area.

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QBCC

NYC map of where ASAP QBCC students live, by student address. Most QBCC students live in Queens.

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