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Jennifer Monsos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative document review study is to investigate the potential gaps between which skills and competencies students are learning in associate degree accounting programs at community colleges in the Minnesota State College system and what employers are seeking in entry-level accounting position applicants in Minnesota. For the…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Accounting, Alignment (Education), Expectation
Marice Kelly Jackson – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Faculty members play a valuable role in the reputation of higher education institutions and adult learners' academic success. It is imperative for faculty members to be adept at using the institution's learning management system to maintain their instructional materials and teach using a technological system. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Experience, Learning Management Systems, College Faculty
Green, Luke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The use of grade point average (GPA) to guide and inform decision-making permeates many corners of the educational landscape, including admission decisions into collegiate academic programs. Using GPA in this way turns an individual academic measure into a commodity that can be used to settle a competition amongst applicants. The rationale for…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, College Admission, Nursing Education, Two Year Colleges
Colorado, Jessica; Laderman, Sophia; McCoy-Simmons, Casey – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2023
The report provides detailed information on policies and practices that differ between two-year and four-year public institutions. It also includes specific information about the tuition-setting process for graduate students, details on state policies for setting nonresident student tuition, and more information on state policies regarding student…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Tuition, Fees, Student Financial Aid
Toliver, Felicia – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges System (KCTCS) began hiring diversity officers throughout the system in the mid-2000s. These highest-ranking diversity officers (HRDO) on each campus led their college's efforts to comply with the statewide diversity policy. A phenomenological approach was used to discover how former HRDOs in KCTCS…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Community Colleges, Administrators, College Administration
John Diamond; Sukanya Barman; Rebekah O’Donoghue; Erick Alonzo – MDRC, 2024
More than half of community college students nationwide intend to pursue a four-year degree; however, in Texas only one in four community college students transfer to four-year institutions successfully. Among students who do transfer to a Texas four-year institution, roughly 60 percent go on to graduate with a bachelor's degree. The result is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Pilot Projects, Community College Students
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2024
Nebraska's constitution and state statutes require the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education (CCPE) to review the budget requests of the University of Nebraska, the Nebraska State College System, and the community colleges in light of specific criteria set forth in the statutes. The Commission also makes recommendations on major…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Finance, Operating Expenses, Budgets
Koch, Zac; Prescott, Brian T. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Understanding the funding requirements of public institutions starts with recognizing them as state assets with capacity to meet state needs, especially those that disproportionately serve underrepresented, low-income, or rural student populations and adult learners. As policy makers wrestle with resource allocation decisions under unfavorable…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Colleges, Financial Support, State Aid
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2022
California's public higher education system has catapulted the state into global leadership such that, the state is the 5th largest economy in the world today. A bachelor's degree, in particular, provides unrivaled economic and health benefits for the individual earning the degree and for the state. To better understand how California's public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Community Colleges, State Colleges
Amy Y. Li; Patricia Katri – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2023
College promise programs, or place-based scholarships, are aimed at helping students attend and afford higher education. The American Dream Scholarship (ADS), offered by Miami Dade College (MDC), is a promise program that covers tuition and fees for the first 60 credits of an associate degree for students residing in and graduating from high…
Descriptors: College Programs, Scholarships, Access to Education, Paying for College
Juliana Louise Pearson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Nationwide, many students who enroll in community college programs fail to persist in postsecondary education or complete a credential. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) Two-Year Occupational Grant Pilot Program (the Occupational Grant) was a financial aid program designed to increase persistence and completion rates through…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Universities, Grants, Student Financial Aid
Cathy Perry Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the United States, financial incentives have been used by the U.S. Government to reward performance at colleges and universities since the 1960s. Various case-studies have documented that incentivization programs may not result in positive outcomes. The purpose of this qualitative, multiple case study was to identify two-year, public colleges'…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Two Year Colleges, Educational Finance, Incentives
Paxton, Rebekah – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2019
On average, only about 16 percent of annual union dues paid by members in 19 Massachusetts public school districts stayed with local union chapters. The remaining 84 percent of dues revenue went directly to the state (Massachusetts Teachers Association) and national (National Education Association) union affiliates. But what about public higher…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Unions, Union Members, Fees
Pugh, Sandra Jeanette – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the developmental education (DE) reform movement at postsecondary still apace, this qualitative study seeks to understand the policy impacts of Florida Senate Bill 1720, major legislation mandating developmental education reform in the state of Florida. The body of literature thus far has focused on quantitative analyses of secondary data…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Indiana Commission for Higher Education, 2022
Indiana's economy needs a skilled talent pipeline, which requires students to pursue and complete degrees or credentials that are affordable, high-quality and relevant to students' future careers and the state's economy. It starts with ensuring students have what they need to get their foot in the door. But right now, fewer students are choosing a…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Educational Attainment