The purpose of this guide is to help college administrators and staff members implement the following two interventions designed to increase summer enrollment rates at their schools: (1) An informational campaign of personalized student communications using email and mail and informed by behavioral science. The campaign simplifies academic,…

This Buckeye Institute policy brief sets out to document problems and inequities in charter school finance in Ohio, but it falls short in providing a comprehensive presentation of evidence. It ignores relevant research literature and extensive findings from the official state evaluation. It incorrectly assumes that charter schools serve the same…

The purpose of this research is to investigate factors that contribute to fiscal problems for public school districts in order to develop a model using benchmarks for maintaining fiscal health. School district revenues and expenditures are analyzed in order to identify patterns that can be used to predict financial stress. Of the 606 school…

Since the bulk of Muskingum Area Technical College's income stems from state subsidy based on each Fall quarter's FTE enrollment, it is imperative that enrollment projections for the budgeting process be as realistic as possible. In December 1973, it was decided to use a modified Delphi technique to project enrollment (and subsequent income) for…

The 1976 Master Plan for Ohio has been shaped by the new challenges and new conditions of declining growth and expansion, changing enrollment patterns, demands for higher education from groups not previously served, the need for and advent of new programs and innovative forms of instruction, and the changing requirements of society itself. The…