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Rost, Jim; Krahenbuhl, Kevin – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
Institutions of higher education have long been plagued with difficulty in overcoming the high rates of incompletion of candidates who enroll in doctoral programs. As we continue to move through the post-pandemic era, online course delivery in doctoral programs continues to rise which brings an added layer of difficulty for EdD students to persist…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Doctoral Programs, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2020
It is often thought that college undergraduates are young, recent high school graduates. Overall, this is the norm -- last year, roughly 70 percent of undergraduates eligible for the State Grant were dependent students, meaning they were dependent on a parent for financial support. However, nearly 30 percent of undergraduates who were eligible for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Parents, Child Rearing, Adult Students
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Thomsen, Erin; Yates, Shauna; Henderson, Mihaela; Drummond, Mary; Cooney, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
This summary report presents selected findings from the full report which describes the experiences of 2015-16 bachelor's degree earners during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 4 years after graduation. The findings in this report are based on data from the 2016/20 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:16/20), which took place…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Longitudinal Studies, COVID-19
Delisle, John – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2019
The federal student loan program is needlessly complex, fails to offer an effective safety net for borrowers in financial difficulty, and distributes the largest benefits to borrowers who need them the least. Worse, the safety net designed to support borrowers in financial difficulty, income-based repayment (IBR), has failed to meaningfully reduce…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Milli, Jessica – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2019
This is the methodological appendix for "Investing in Single Mothers' Higher Education: National and State Estimates of the Costs and Benefits of Single Mothers' Educational Attainment to Individuals, Families, and Society." The Institute for Women's Policy Research's (IWPR) briefing paper, features findings from a study to quantify the…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
Gault, Barbara; Noll, Elizabeth; Reichlin, Lindsey – Association of Community College Trustees, 2017
Researchers Barbara Gault, Elizabeth Noll, and Lindsey Reichlin, from the Institute for Women's Policy Research (DC), assess the unique needs of community college students who are also parents. The majority of students with children attend community college. Single parents, the majority of whom are mothers, are more likely to work fulltime and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Environment, At Risk Students, Family School Relationship