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Kelly L. DeSenti – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative instrumental multicase study described and explored dual enrollment policies in three states: Colorado, Indiana, and Virginia. Student outcomes from dual enrollment participation are positive, yet access to these programs is uneven within and across states. Colorado, Indiana, and Virginia have similar educational governance…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Educational Policy, Access to Education, Academic Achievement
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Cecilia M. Orphan; Sophia Laderman – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Performance-funding for higher education diffused across the U.S. following the Great Recession that led to funding cuts for the system. Postsecondary funding never returned to pre-Recession levels, and public colleges are held to higher expectations even as the funding they might use to meet these expectations has diminished. This is a challenge…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Funding Formulas, Full State Funding
Palmer, Iris; Prebil, Michael; Rush-Marlowe, Rachel – New America, 2023
To better understand the challenges and opportunities facing community colleges that want to expand apprenticeship opportunities to their students, New America conducted a year-long study. We created an advisory committee to guide this work and spoke to apprenticeship, workforce development, and community college leaders about the community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Apprenticeships, Community College Students, Educational Strategies
National Education Association, 2023
Last summer, the National Education Association (NEA) developed a New Business Item to explore retrenchment: "The NEA shall make a statistical study on the effect of significant faculty retrenchment at community colleges on future faculty cuts" (NBI 78, 2022). ASA Research (ASA) conducted exploratory research in an attempt to identify…
Descriptors: Retrenchment, Faculty Mobility, Employment Practices, College Faculty
Falkenstern, Colleen – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2023
The most recent data on tuition, appropriations, and state grant aid present an economic outlook that appears favorable in the West. Tuition rates remained relatively flat for the past decade, total state funding to higher education increased across the region in the past year, and state grant aid continued to increase since 2010-11. Despite these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tuition, Fees, Student Financial Aid
Donald E. Heller – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
In December 2023, TICAS published new research on the College Affordability Gap--the gap between students' total cost of attendance and non-loan aid available to them--in California, Michigan, and New York, with a focus on students eligible for Pell Grants. Our new report builds on this research with data from nine additional states (Colorado,…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Access to Education, Federal Aid, Grants
Nathan Willers – ProQuest LLC, 2022
State funding for higher education is one of the most pressing issues facing both institutions and policymakers in 2022. Colorado has seen significant declines in the amount of state funding per student over the past two decades, resulting in increases in student burdens for tuition. Policy discourse analysis through a poststructural and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Discourse Analysis, Educational Finance
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2022
This edition of "WICHE Insights" discusses the most recent results of WICHE's annual survey, "Tuition and Fees in the West," as well as the recent trends in state appropriations and state financial aid. Overall, the most recent data highlights a positive trend in state higher education finance as most states reported minimal…
Descriptors: Tuition, Fees, Higher Education, Colleges
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Gándara, Denisa – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Extant research neglects to examine how policymakers make decisions regarding funding allocations to higher education institutions. This case study analyzed the policy process surrounding the development of one model for funding higher education in Colorado. The study is anchored in a theory of policy design, which considers how groups targeted by…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Policy Formation, State Policy
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Gándara, Denisa – Review of Higher Education, 2019
This paper reports on an analysis, using a comparative case study design, of the degree to which policy actors use evidence in designing performance-funding policies in Colorado and Texas. The analysis reveals that features of demanders of information--including their prior exposure to research, their attitudes toward evidence, and, in the case of…
Descriptors: Design, Evidence, Funding Formulas, Higher Education
Curtin, Kathleen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Today higher education in the United States faces the challenges of increased demand and escalating cost in the face of stagnant graduation rates. Of particular interest to the public are tax payer supported postsecondary institutions. The traditional method of funding public colleges and universities based on enrollment has shifted in 32 states…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Higher Education, Performance
Larson, Rebecca Sam; Medved, Caryn – Metropolitan Universities, 2022
Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO) is a telementoring program for health professionals that uses adult learning techniques and interactive video technology to connect distal community providers with specialist and multidisciplinary teams in real-time collaborative sessions. We examine the adoption, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Selection, Program Implementation, Telecommunications, Mentors
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2022
This report provides comprehensive data about the tuition and fee prices published by public higher education institutions in the West for academic year 2022-23, including changes in tuition and fee rates over the past one-, five-, and 10-academic year periods. Tuition and fee rates in the region appear to have stabilized over the past decade…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Tuition
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2023
The Tuition and Fee Report is produced annually by the Colorado Department of Higher Education to provide detailed information on the tuition and fee rates at Colorado's public institutions, as well as to give context regarding the state funding environment in which tuition and fee rate-setting occurs. Colorado has mirrored national trends over…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tuition, Fees, Public Colleges
Reichardt, Robert; Christeson, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose of this study is to provide an estimate of concurrent enrollment (CE) costs and return on investment (ROI) in Colorado. This report is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funded grant to develop a college access and success research partnership (R305H170049). This study is of Colorado…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Outcomes of Education, Costs, Models
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