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Donna Hale – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Education ensures that children from all backgrounds have equal opportunities to succeed. Yet, the education provided for many K-12 students in the state of Texas may not be equal due to the allocation of school funds under House Bill 3 (H.B. 3). To date, the Revenue to Population (RTP) Index and other normalized statistical metrics have not been…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Resource Allocation
Yin, Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This thesis studies four independent resource allocation problems with different assumptions on information available to the central planner, and strategic considerations of the agents present in the system. We start off with an online, non-strategic agents setting in Chapter 1, where we study the dynamic pricing and learning problem under the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Resource Allocation, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies
Barringer, Sondra N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this dissertation I analyze the financial behaviors of public and private nonprofit higher education organizations in the U.S. from 1980 to 2010. The three analyses examine organizational change in the financial behaviors of these institutions and the effects of two sources of organizational interdependencies, stakeholder influence and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Educational Finance, Organizational Change
Rivera Vazquez, Juan C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Cyber crime is a term used to describe the abuse and misuse of a computer system where it is at a loss for someone across the world. It also refers to crimes committed by, or with computers via the Internet or only accessing a computer, is to steal or manipulate information of a company or a person and to use as a means for traditional such as…
Descriptors: Crime, Computer Security, Attitudes, Questionnaires
Troy D. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation is comprised of three chapters. The first chapter examines the effects of private equity investment on the firms that receive this investment in India. While private equity (PE) is expanding rapidly in developing countries, there is little academic research on this subject. In this chapter I exploit two new data sources and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Financial Support, Investment, Corporations
Hovey, Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In recent years the majority of California community colleges evaluated for re-accreditation received sanctions requiring documented improvement in the integration of college planning and budgeting processes. This study explores the challenges colleges face and the best practices utilized by successful colleges in implementing integrated…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Income, Prediction