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Whitney Mahoney – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study intends to better understand the experiences of poor and working-class undergraduate college students who are enrolled full-time at state flagship universities and who hold on-campus leadership positions within high-intensity student organizations. This study explores how poor and working-class students come to high-intensity…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Working Class, Student Leadership, Student Organizations
John Diamond; Sukanya Barman; Rebekah O’Donoghue; Erick Alonzo – MDRC, 2024
More than half of community college students nationwide intend to pursue a four-year degree; however, in Texas only one in four community college students transfer to four-year institutions successfully. Among students who do transfer to a Texas four-year institution, roughly 60 percent go on to graduate with a bachelor's degree. The result is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Pilot Projects, Community College Students
Koch, Zac; Prescott, Brian T. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Understanding the funding requirements of public institutions starts with recognizing them as state assets with capacity to meet state needs, especially those that disproportionately serve underrepresented, low-income, or rural student populations and adult learners. As policy makers wrestle with resource allocation decisions under unfavorable…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Colleges, Financial Support, State Aid
Clairem Diaz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between Navigate, a technology-aided advisement platform to support student success, and the retention of full-time, First Time in College-Direct Entry students in the fall 2018 and 2019 cohorts, as measured by the number of credits attempted during their first year at public college in the…
Descriptors: State Colleges, College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Academic Advising
Lanford, Michael – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
US colleges and universities have operated on the belief that academics need the freedom to question received wisdom, test new pedagogical methods, and produce knowledge that can be transparently shared for the public good. However, the same institutions are increasingly engaged in competition for resources through externally imposed…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Academic Freedom
Eric P. Bettinger; Benjamin L. Castleman; Alice Choe; Zachary Mabel – Grantee Submission, 2022
Nearly half of students who enter college do not graduate. The majority of efforts to increase college completion have focused on supporting students before or soon after they enter college, yet many students drop out after making significant progress towards their degree. In this paper, we report results from a multi-year, large-scale…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Persistence, College Students, Educational Attainment
Eric P. Bettinger; Benjamin L. Castleman; Alice Choe; Zachary Mabel – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022
Nearly half of students who enter college do not graduate. The majority of efforts to increase college completion have focused on supporting students before or soon after they enter college, yet many students drop out after making significant progress towards their degree. In this paper, we report results from a multi-year, large-scale…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Persistence, College Students, Educational Attainment
Brower, Rebecca L.; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Osborne-Lampkin, La'Tara; Hu, Shouping; Park-Gaghan, Toby J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Big qualitative data (Big Qual), or research involving large qualitative data sets, has introduced many newly evolving conventions that have begun to change the fundamental nature of some qualitative research. In this methodological essay, we first distinguish big data from big qual. We define big qual as data sets containing either primary or…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Data, Change, Barriers
Cook, Kevin; Mehlotra, Radhika – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
California State University (CSU) is an engine of economic mobility for Californians, particularly those from historically underrepresented communities. The system's 23 campuses are also vital in helping the state meet labor market demands for highly educated workers. But despite annual funding increases, CSU has struggled to enroll all eligible…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Enrollment Management, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Cruz, José L. – Lumina Foundation, 2016
Policymakers are moving to outcomes-based funding in an effort to inspire public higher education institutions to drive the transformative change required to expand access, increase graduation rates and contain costs. For outcomes-based funding to have a significant effect on student outcomes, system and institutional leaders must successfully…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Outcomes of Education, Funding Formulas
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2017
Nebraska is committed to measuring its progress toward achieving the major statewide goals through national comparisons and institutional peer comparisons. It is the aim of the "Comprehensive Plan" that, when rank order is appropriate, Nebraska will rank among the ten best states in national comparisons, and individual public…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Enrollment
Li, Amy; Mishory, Jen – Century Foundation, 2018
Many states are passing "free" college plans, and policymakers at both the state and federal level continue to debate the merits of national "free college" or "debt-free college" proposals, also known as Promise programs. Both federal and state "free" college proposals are geared toward a policy objective of…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Policy, Educational Finance, College Attendance
Baldassare, Mark; Bonner, Dean; Dykman, Alyssa; Lopes, Lunna – Public Policy Institute of California, 2018
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Statewide Survey delivers objective, advocacy-free information on the perceptions, opinions, and public policy preferences of California residents. PPIC invites input, comments, and suggestions from policy and public opinion experts and from its own advisory committee, but survey methods, questions,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Policy, Paying for College, Public Opinion
Policy Options for University of California Budgeting. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.5.11
Young, Charles E. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Within a quarter century after the end of World War II (1945-1970), largely because of the support and investment it received from the State, the University of California had changed from two modest-size general campuses (Berkeley and Los Angeles) and the medical campus in San Francisco (UCSF), to a system of eight general campuses. California was…
Descriptors: Privatization, Academic Achievement, Partnerships in Education, State Colleges
Cornelius, Luke M.; Cavanaugh, Terence W. – Journal of Education Finance, 2016
A policy analysis of Florida's 10-factor Performance-Based Funding system for state universities. The focus of the article is on the system of performance metrics developed by the state Board of Governors and their impact on institutions and their missions. The paper also discusses problems and issues with the metrics, their ongoing evolution, and…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Performance