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Li, Amy Y. – Educational Policy, 2020
Performance funding policies for higher education allocate appropriations to public institutions based on student outcomes such as degree completions. This study investigates whether a special science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) incentive in 13 state performance funding policies leads to greater undergraduate degree…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education, STEM Education
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Hanson, Chad – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
In this article, the debate over the community college baccalaureate is placed in the context of both political culture and the history of public education. Bachelor's degree programs are discussed from the standpoint of their contribution to civic life, and a case is made that academically-inclined colleges are crucial to fostering a public…
Descriptors: Public Education, Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Role of Education
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Saito, Laurel; Walker, Mark; Chandra, Sudeep; Miller, W. Watkins; Tyler, Scott – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2009
In the new ecohydrology major at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), students learn about the relationships between hydrologic mechanisms and ecological patterns and processes in watersheds and aquatic systems. The curriculum provides students with the option of meeting the requirements for federal positions as a hydrologist (GS 1315) and is…
Descriptors: Ecology, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Bachelors Degrees