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Siqueiros, Michele – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2020
Attending college without working is a luxury most California community college students do not have. In fact, nationally, 80 percent of today's community college students work while going to class (39 percent of them work full-time), with many balancing their role as a primary source of income for their family and caring for young children. Jobs…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Federal Programs, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Griselda C. Castilla – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between college persistence and family income, parental education level, and type of financial aid for first-time, full-time Hispanic economically disadvantaged students selected from a South Texas Hispanic-serving institution. The dependent variable, college persistence, was measured by…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Student Financial Aid, Correlation
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Zhang, Ye; Schmidt-Hertha, Bernhard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
This paper, based on data collected from questionnaires distributed among German students and from interviews with university professors and contacts in cooperating companies in both Germany and China, evaluates dual studies in Germany and their applicability to China. The study finds that most students are satisfied with the theory phase and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Work Study Programs, Dual Enrollment
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Lim, Sok Mui; Foo, Yong Lim; Yeo, May-Fung; Chan, Chelsea Yu Xian; Loh, Han Tong – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
The purpose of this study is to evaluate students' perception of growth in the area of work-related skills through their participation in an integrated work study program (IWSP). In Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), 368 students across a range of six programs took part in an IWSP lasting six to twelve months. Students reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Job Skills, Work Study Programs
Kim, Sooji – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The federal work-study program is one of the earliest forms of federal financial aid for higher education in the United States and has come under close scrutiny for its debatable impact on low-income students' college success and persistence. However, federal work-study surprisingly remains one of the least-studied financial aid programs. This has…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Work Study Programs, Low Income Students, Student Financial Aid
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2019
Each year, National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report, the 50th annual survey, represents data from academic year 2018-19. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, State Aid, Student Loan Programs
American Association of Community Colleges, 2019
Federal Work-Study (FWS) funding provides opportunities for campus-based employment to students as a way to pay for their college expenses. This issue of "DataPoints" finds community colleges receive only 18 percent of Federal Work-Study funds from the $1 billion appropriated to the program.
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Paying for College, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
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Burns, Rachel; Johnson, Ruby; Lacy, T. Austin; Cameron, Margaux; Holley, Jordan; Lew, Stephen; Wu, Joanna; Siegel, Peter; Wine, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
This First Look publication provides the first results of the 2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Administrative Collection (NPSAS:18-AC), the most comprehensive national study of student financing of postsecondary education in the United States. The study includes information for about 245,000 undergraduate students and 21,000…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Postsecondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Federal Aid
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Burns, Rachel; Johnson, Ruby; Lacy, T. Austin; Cameron, Margaux; Holley, Jordan; Lew, Stephen; Wu, Joanna; Siegel, Peter; Wine, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
This Summary presents selected findings from "2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Administrative Collection (NPSAS:18-AC): First Look at Student Financial Aid Estimates for 2017-18. NCES 2021-476rev." The study includes information for about 245,000 undergraduate students and 21,000 graduate students attending 1,900…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Postsecondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Federal Aid
Atcha, Haroon – Association for Institutional Research, 2022
Institutional researchers are often tasked with assessing why college-wide initiatives succeed or fail. This can be a difficult task: researchers need to discriminate between multiple feasible explanations, work with limited data, and produce compelling narratives. Process tracing is a qualitative methodology that enables researchers to make valid…
Descriptors: Researchers, Higher Education, Educational Research, Case Studies
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
Burd, Stephen; Keane, Laura; Fishman, Rachel; Habbert, Julie – New America, 2018
Students and families confront a detrimental lack of information and transparency when making one of the biggest financial decisions of their lives: paying for college. The report analyzed thousands of financial aid award letters and found not only that financial aid is insufficient to cover the cost of college for many students, but also that…
Descriptors: Student Costs, Student Financial Aid, Letters (Correspondence), Student Loan Programs
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2019
Work-based learning provides students an opportunity as aspiring employees to explore careers and to turn theory and simulation into practice by gaining on-the-job experience. The hands-on experience gained from work-based learning opportunities, especially when considered in combination with the attainment and application of employment soft…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, On the Job Training, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2018
Each year the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report, the 49th annual survey, represents data from academic year 2017-18. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, State Aid, Student Loan Programs
Papay, Clare; Grigal, Meg; Migliore, Alberto – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2022
Reviews of the transition literature have identified 23 in-school predictors of post-school success for students with disabilities. We sought to identify available variables in the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 (NLTS 2012) Phase I dataset that correspond with the 23 in-school predictors of post-school success to better understand…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Success, Predictor Variables, Transitional Programs
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