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Katerina A. Jones; Frank D. Steyn; Lorraine S. Wallace – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Background: The purposes of this study were to (1) longitudinally examine US college and university COVID-19 dashboard content and (2) explore county-level population health and COVID-19 community indicators where colleges with large undergraduate enrollments were located. Methods: We identified 10 colleges with the largest undergraduate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Information Dissemination, College Role
Ibrahima Coulibaly; Jebaraj Asirvatham – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2024
Purpose: This study estimates the effect of the Truth-in-Tuition policy on the enrollment of first-year students, minority students and all students (total enrollment) in Illinois universities. Design/methodology/approach: Econometric models yield robust estimates using state- and time-fixed effects. This research uses the nonparametric…
Descriptors: Tuition, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, College Enrollment
Khan, Muhammad Asif; Ashraf, Rohail; Baazeem, Thamer Ahmad S. – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: State funding is being reduced for higher education institutes (HEIs) is linked to several checks such as performance-based incentives (Hagood, 2019). This forces HEIs to look for other options for funding. Endowment funds are now becoming the main source of revenue for HEIs (Sörlin, 2007), largely provided by alumni. Thus, this study…
Descriptors: Endowment Funds, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Public Colleges
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
Dugas, Daryl; Summers, Kelly H.; Harris, Lindsay N.; Stich, Amy E. – AERA Open, 2018
Faculty (N = 156) at regional public universities (RPUs) in the United States were surveyed for self-reports of their primary academic identity (teacher, researcher) along with alignment of that identity with perceived departmental expectations and how their time is spent. Well-being and job satisfaction were examined as outcome measures of…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Neoliberalism, Research Universities, Job Satisfaction
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2021
This report provides state-level projections of postsecondary enrollment, credential production, and the college-educated population in order to inform the Illinois P-20 Council's strategy for creating and meeting attainment equity goals. [This report was created with the Illinois P-20 Council, College & Career Readiness Committee.]
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Enrollment, Credentials, Educational Attainment
Delaney, Jennifer A.; Kearney, Tyler D. – Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study considered the impact of state-level guaranteed tuition programs on alternative student-based revenue streams. It used a quasi-experimental, difference-in-difference methodology with a panel dataset of public four-year institutions from 2000-2012. Illinois' 2004 "Truth-in-Tuition" law was used as the policy of interest and the…
Descriptors: State Programs, Tuition, Higher Education, Income
Li, Diyi; Koedel, Cory – Educational Researcher, 2017
We use data from 2015-2016 to document faculty representation and wage gaps by race-ethnicity and gender in six fields at selective public universities. Consistent with widely available information, Black, Hispanic, and female professors are underrepresented and White and Asian professors are overrepresented in our data. Disadvantaged minority and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Teacher Salaries, Racial Differences, Ethnic Groups
Velez, Angel L.; Yeo, HyeJin Tina; Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni M.; Samet, Michelle; Fox, Heather L. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2020
The Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges STEM Pipelines (HSCC-STEM) study is a research project that explores the transitions to and through Hispanic-serving two-year institutions for underrepresented minoritized STEM students. This brief uncovers the most viable HSCC STEM pathways for Latinxs and other underrepresented minoritized students as well…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, STEM Education, Hispanic American Students, Two Year College Students
Head, Alison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2016
This paper identifies approaches, challenges, and best practices related to planning and designing today's academic library learning spaces. As part of the Project Information Literacy (PIL) Practitioner Series, qualitative data is presented from 49 interviews conducted with a sample of academic librarians, architects, and library consultants.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design
James, Scott; Swan, Karen; Daston, Cassandra – Online Learning, 2016
Online learning continues to grow at post-secondary institutions across the United States, but many question its efficacy, especially for students most at-risk for failure. This paper engages that issue. It examines recent research on the success of community college students who take online classes and explores similar comparisons using 656,258…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Two Year College Students, School Holding Power
Carlson, Andrew; Laderman, Sophia – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2016
The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of multiple decisions made every year in every state in each of these areas. No single report can provide definitive answers to these broad and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, State Aid, Financial Support
Duram, Leslie A.; Williams, Laura L. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of a student organic garden at a large public university, as an example of student initiatives that promote both university sustainability and student-focused sustainability education on campus. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis to…
Descriptors: Gardening, Public Colleges, Student Projects, Sustainability
Xin, Huaibo; Kempland, Monica; Blankson, Faustina H. – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
The study aims to examine the effectiveness of web-facilitated, hybrid, and online learning modalities among undergraduate students in a public institution so as to determine the adaptability and replicability of these three learning modalities. This is a quasi-experimental study. A total of 103 undergraduate exercise science majors participated…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Blended Learning, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students
Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
We study employers' perceptions of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institution to fictitious resumes and send them to real vacancy postings on a large online job board. According to our results, a bachelor's degree in business from a for-profit "online" institution is 22…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Postsecondary Education, Credentials, Academic Degrees