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Gordon, Howard R. D.; Schneiter, Heidi; Bryant, Ross; Winn, Vanessa; Buke, Valarie C.; Johnson, Tracy – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore staff members' perceptions of student-veterans college experiences at a 2-year and a 4-year institution. This study was guided by Schlossberg's Theory of Adult Transitions. Purposive sampling was used to identify 640 participants for the study. Respondents indicated that their campus should add…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Employee Attitudes, College Students, Veterans
Jennings, Jack – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
With the triumph of Tea Party candidates and other conservatives in 2010, many in the new Congress are pressing to get the federal government out of education. Eliminating or curtailing federal involvement in education would be a wrong-headed, simplistic move for several reasons: (1) It ignores the nation's history; (2) It would erode the state…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Politics of Education, Public Education, United States History
Loss, Christopher P. – Princeton University Press, 2011
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, United States History, Educational History