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B. Heath Witzen – Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center, 2021
The College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act (CCR-CCA) of 2013 (Chapter 533, Senate Bill 740, 2013) passed the Maryland General Assembly in 2013 with the goal of improving college and career outcomes for Maryland students. One policy included in the legislation was a tuition cost reduction for select high school students who dually…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Tuition Grants, Lunch Programs, Low Income Students
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Bozick, Robert; Gonzalez, Gabriella; Engberg, John – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2015
The Pittsburgh Promise is a scholarship program that provides $5,000 per year toward college tuition for public high school graduates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who earned a 2.5 GPA and a 90% attendance record. This study used a difference-in-difference design to assess whether the introduction of the Promise scholarship program directly…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Management
Gray, Katti – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Howard University School of Law had a problem, and school officials knew it. Over a 20-year period, 40 percent of its graduates who took the Maryland bar exam failed it on their first try. During the next 24 months--the time frame required to determine its "eventual pass rate"--almost 90 percent of the students did pass. What they did…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Tuition Grants, Accreditation (Institutions)
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Office of Special Education. – 1978
The manual describes the Maryland State Department of Education's responsibility and legal authority for administering the nonpublic school tuition assistance program for handicapped students. Procedures are addressed for such general areas as nonpublic institutions and child placement approval authority, nonpublic placement eligibility criteria,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Guides, Handicapped Children, Individualized Programs
Fife, Jonathan D. – 1975
This report reviews the status of higher education student financial aid in Maryland in relation to equal educational opportunity, increasing dynamics of the marketplace, social necessity, general college and attendance data, general trends in the growth of higher education, a student's ability to pay, federally sponsored student aid programs, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends, Equal Education
MacDonald, Douglas S. – 1975
This manual was designed to provide structural guidelines for financial aid program operations and administration at the Community College of Baltimore. Topics discussed include: the philosophy of student aid at an open door college; the objectives of the student financial aid office; staff development and administrative improvement; organization,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Guides, Administrator Qualifications, Community Colleges
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Masci, Frank J.; Stotko, Elaine M. – Education and Urban Society, 2006
The Professional Immersion Master of Arts in Teaching (ProMAT) program is a cooperative venture between Johns Hopkins University and Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools, a large school district that has experienced increased urbanization. This graduate-level teacher preparation program provides candidates with extensive internship…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Evaluation, Partnerships in Education, Public Schools