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PDF pending restorationPerna, Laura Walter – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1998
Examines the total direct and indirect effects of receiving financial aid on persistence to degree using a subsample of 1989 freshmen from the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey. Analysis shows that although simply receiving financial aid is unrelated to persistence, the effects of financial aid on persistence appear to depend on type and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Research, Federal Programs, Financial Aid Applicants
Download full textHenderson, Peter H.; Clarke, Julie E.; Woods, Cynthia – 1998
This 30th annual report summarizes results of the 1995-96 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), which collected data from graduates as they completed requirements for their doctoral degrees. The report notes the continued, but slowing, increase in research doctorates. Following an examination of general trends in the overall number of doctorates, the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, College Graduates, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Trends
