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Download full textBehaunek, Luke; Gansemer-Topf, Ann M. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2019
This paper describes relationships between tuition discounting (TD), net tuition revenue, and other institutional characteristics at four-year, liberal arts institutions. TD, a practice whereby institutional grants are used to subsidize a student's educational expense, has become a common practice at four-year institutions. TDs impact on…
Descriptors: Tuition, Tuition Grants, Educational Finance, Small Colleges
Direct linkLee, Timothy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the relationship between successful athletic programs and admissions at small, private, NCAA Division I colleges. The premise of this project focused on the Flutie factor, which suggests that media coverage resulting from winning athletic programs leads to an increase in both applications for admission as well as a stronger and…
Descriptors: College Athletics, College Admission, College Applicants, Small Colleges
Cockburn, Sally; Hewitt, Gordon; Kelly, Timothy – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
This paper presents the results of a model that simulates the effects of varying preferential admissions policies on the academic profile of a set of 35 small liberal arts colleges. An underlying assumption is that all schools in the set use the same ratio of preferential to non-preferential admissions. The model predicts that even drastic changes…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, College Admission, Small Colleges, Liberal Arts
Watkins, Paul David – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the learning community program at a small liberal arts college on educational outcomes as measured by differences in semester GPA between learning community participants and non-participants, as well as differences between types of learning communities, time of participation in…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Liberal Arts, Communities of Practice, Grade Point Average
Morgan, Rick – College Entrance Examination Board, 1989
Since 1964, colleges have been sending data to the College Board Validity Study Service in order to determine the degree to which measures used in admissions predict college performance. These studies have allowed for the monitoring of general trends in the relationship of SAT scores and high school grades with freshman grades. Beginning in the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Predictive Validity, Grades (Scholastic), Correlation
Lyons, Arthur W. – 1985
The Experimental Intensive Freshmen Advising Program, which was developed to help high-risk freshmen succeed at a small, four-year liberal arts college, was evaluated. The voluntary, one-semester program is based on humanistic and behavioral principles and incorporates weekly, group meetings with a freshman peer advisor and a faculty adviser, test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Aptitude Tests, Class Rank
