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Melba Dinorah Fix-Padilla – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Nontraditional students in Nebraska colleges have lower graduation rates than traditional students. Approximately 40% of nontraditional students at a private college withdraw before completing a degree. The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover barriers preventing nontraditional students from completing a degree. The conceptual…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Private Colleges, Academic Persistence, Undergraduate Students
Horn, Michael B.; Dunagan, Alana – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2018
This paper discusses the nature of higher education business models and how innovation can (or cannot) occur within those models. It explores the stories of educational institutions as they have tried to launch innovative practices, profiling Bellevue University (Nebraska) and Tiffin University (Ohio), schools that tried to build innovative online…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education
Keller, MorraLee; DeBaun, Bill; Warick, Carrie – Education Commission of the States, 2020
When the nation shut down in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, states had to figure out what education would look like for the remainder of the academic year. These abrupt changes affected not only students' ability to learn but also their access to the support system that would help prepare them for steps beyond high school. This Policy…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics