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Exploring How Higher Education Administrators Can Overcome Narrowing Net Tuition Revenues to Remain Viable -- A Qualitative Study
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Kristin Jasper – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education administrators face challenges related to declining net tuition revenues. Net tuition revenues are sustaining decreases related to tuition discounting and declining enrollments. College and university leaders were interviewed in this qualitative study to determine why it is challenging to reverse narrowing net tuition revenues and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Tuition, Income, Cost Effectiveness
An Examination of Pell Grant Recipient Graduation Rates and Institutional Expenditures at Public Baccalaureate Institutions
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Lamont A. Sellers – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present study examines the differences between public baccalaureate institutional expenditures and Pell Grant recipient graduation rates at high and low Pell Grant recipient graduating institutions. IPEDS data were analyzed, including instructional, academic support, student services, institutional support, and Pell Grant recipient 6-year…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Tuition Grants, Graduation Rate, Expenditure per Student
Does the Help Grant Help? Impact of the Help Grant on College-Going in Mississippi
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Jennifer D. Rogers – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Mississippi appropriates millions of dollars each year to the Higher Education Legislative Plan for Needy Students (HELP) Grant to help college-ready, low-income students pay for college, but little is known about the effectiveness of the program. This dissertation in practice examines the impact of the HELP Grant by comparing the college-going…
Descriptors: College Students, Paying for College, Tuition Grants, Minority Group Students
Education, Employability, and the American Workforce: Manufacturing Perceptions of Credentials, Motivations for Supporting Degree Completion and Barriers to Adult Enrollment
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Gardner, Alexander C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study examines manufacturing employer perceptions of postsecondary credentials, the ways in which they find them valuable, and explores the barriers employers identify which prevent employees from enrolling in employer sponsored continuing education programs. In total, 14 staff members were interviewed representing five manufacturing…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Employer Attitudes, Credentials, Barriers
Predicting Student Retention Using Scholarship and Grant Aid
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Dixon, William J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Since the beginning, the field of higher education has represented the possibility of a better future for many. For some, education represents a way to better oneself and to prepare for a future career. This is the one of the strongest drivers of going to college, that it will open doors to a better future. The number of students attending…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, School Holding Power, Student Financial Aid, Graduation Rate
Lottery Tuition Assistance as a Predictor of Retention at a Public Two-Year College
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Welch, Joel Darby – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study considered whether unmet financial need served as a predictor of retention and how the addition of lottery tuition assistance (LTA) to a financial aid package reduced unmet financial need. Retention was defined as a student who started in Fall, 2008 and returned in Fall, 2009.The two-year college, Greenville Technical College,…
Descriptors: Tuition Grants, Predictor Variables, Public Colleges, Two Year Colleges