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Childress, Cameron; Ward, James Dean; Pisacreta, Elizabeth Davidson – ITHAKA S+R, 2023
As Mississippi prepares to support the statewide postsecondary attainment goal, understanding the returns to higher education is crucial to determining where to invest resources. Ithaka S+R has partnered with the Woodward Hines Education Foundation to provide Mississippi policymakers, advocates, and legislators with information they need to make…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Postsecondary Education, Futures (of Society), Educational Attainment
Hill, Catharine Bond; Radecki, Jane; Radecki, Jane – ITHAKA S+R, 2021
In December of 2012 administrators for the University of Texas (UT) System announced a proposed merger of University of Texas-Brownsville and the University of Texas-Pan American "with an eye toward securing increased state funds and potentially building a medical school." The status of University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) and…
Descriptors: Universities, Organizational Change, College Administration, Educational Opportunities
Pisacreta, Elizabeth Davidson; Schwartz, Emily; Hill, Catharine Bond; Kurzweil, Martin – ITHAKA S+R, 2021
Earning a bachelor's degree is increasingly important to an individual's longer-term economic prospects. Communities, at all levels, also benefit when their members earn postsecondary credentials, through improved economic, social, and health outcomes. Yet, despite an increase in college participation over the last two decades, severe inequities…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, Selective Admission, Socioeconomic Status
Hill, Catharine Bond; Kurzweil, Martin; Tobin, Eugene – ITHAKA S+R, 2023
With a decision pending in two lawsuits challenging race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), many observers are predicting that the US Supreme Court will significantly limit, if not completely prohibit, the use of race in college and university admissions. However if the United…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Race, College Admission, Prediction