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Eric R. Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Accrediting agencies assess higher education institutions using performance indicators that are outdated and assessed incorrectly. This research uses various quantitative methods including multiple regression to provide data to understand the financial impacts of these indicators on mission driven historically Black colleges and universities…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Universities, Influences, Accreditation (Institutions)
Burns, Rachel; Bryer, Ellen; Heckert, Kelsey; Weeden, Dustin; Brown, Lynneah – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2023
"A Dream Derailed? Investigating the Causal Effects of College Closure on Student Outcomes" is the second of three planned novel reports from a collaborative research team of State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) and the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center, seeking to quantify the impacts of…
Descriptors: School Closing, Colleges, Student Experience, Outcomes of Education
Janae F. Lyde – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Enrollment levels and retention rates are two institutional factors that have seen a decline in the last five years and more. Previous research has documented the decline attributed to many different reasons. Resource allocations are a significant reason why enrollment levels and retention rates are declining at many higher education institutions.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Resource Allocation, College Enrollment
Helmer, Ann Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Dual enrollment programs have gained popularity as a way for students to earn college credits while still in high school. This professional practice dissertation explored the effectiveness of various strategies to promote dual enrollment to high school students, focusing on increasing enrollment rates among underserved populations and equitable…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Program Effectiveness, Enrollment Rate
Mayne, Carrie – Utah System of Higher Education, 2020
During the 2018-19 academic year, over 178,000 students walked the eight Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) campuses. Of those students, approximately 9.3% came directly from Utah's high school graduating class of 2018. The transition from high school to postsecondary learning is a major step in an individual's life. Leaders on both ends of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Adjustment, College Students, Enrollment
Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodriguez, Julio E. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent…
Descriptors: Prediction, Learning Analytics, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
Illinois Community College Board, 2021
Community colleges report general opening spring term enrollment figures to the Illinois Community College Board using a brief web based survey. These figures reflect student enrollments as of the end of registration for the Spring 2021 semester--usually the 10th day of the term. Illinois Community Colleges have implemented campus measures to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
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Sokunrith Pov – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The decline of females in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields has drawn global discourse among researchers and policymakers, including Cambodia. At Cambodian upper secondary schools, female students' enrolment rates in science classes dramatically decreased from 97% in 2014--42% in 2019. In contrast, female students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, STEM Education
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Eaton, Gary; Cates, Steven – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Online student retention remains a problem for many colleges and universities. Retention models developed for residential students also explain the contribution to retention resulting from connecting online students with other students and the daily life of the university. Social media has been proposed as a way to engage online students to create…
Descriptors: College Students, School Holding Power, Social Media, Social Integration
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Chingos, Matthew M.; Kisida, Brian – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only federally funded school voucher program in the United States, has provided private school scholarships to low-income students in DC since 2004. From its inception, the program has received significant attention in national debates and has been the subject of rigorous evaluations…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, College Enrollment, Program Effectiveness, Enrollment Rate
Trimboli, Daniella; Lees, Melinda; Zhang, Zhihui – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
When the COVID-19 virus was declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020, no one could have anticipated the extent to which it would impact on all aspects of Australian society, including the vocational education and training (VET) sector -- nor for how long. The VET sector has always prioritised practical…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
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Knepfle, Chuck; McCaskill, Rock – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2022
Many factors, including free two-year college commitments in states like New York, Tennessee, and Oregon, have led to increases in students attending two-year schools with the ultimate goal of graduating with a bachelor's degree. Bachelor's degree granting institutions should, and arguably have an obligation to, make that transition as seamless as…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Two Year Colleges, Colleges, Transfer Students
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Rowe, Emma – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
In 2017, it was excitedly pronounced across major newspapers in Australia that public schools' share of student enrolment had increased, marking a "determined end to a 40-year decline". The claims were bolstered by numerical data, and an accompanied media release, issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These bold claims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Enrollment Rate, Educational Trends
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Karlijn F. B. Soppe; Irene G. Klugkist; Theo Wubbels; Leoniek D. N. V. Wijngaards de Meij – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
In the Netherlands, the implementation of mandatory procedures in which prospective students do a final check on their initial higher education program choice (so-called matching procedures), were introduced to improve student-program fit. We argue that prospective students who lack feelings of fit with the program during these matching procedures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Choice, College Bound Students
Illinois Community College Board, 2023
Overall, compared to the Spring term one year ago, Illinois Community College System Spring 2023 opening headcount enrollments (+7.2 percent) and full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments (+6.8 percent) had substantial growth. The opening enrollments reflect the end of the regular spring registration period which is usually the 10th day of class. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
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