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Download full textNational Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of a state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information to assess and improve post secondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2008" is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that evaluates states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation for post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of a state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information to assess and improve post secondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2008" is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that evaluates states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation for post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of a state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information to assess and improve post secondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2008" is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that evaluates states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation for post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of a state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information to assess and improve post secondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2008" is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that evaluates states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation for post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of a state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information to assess and improve post secondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2008" is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that evaluates states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation for post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of a state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information to assess and improve post secondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2008" is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that evaluates states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation for post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
The purpose of a state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information to assess and improve post secondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2008" is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that evaluates states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation for post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
Cunningham, Alisa F.; Carroll, C. Dennis – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
This report focuses on first-time, full-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates in order to examine patterns of sticker prices, financial aid, and net prices from an institutional perspective. For the period 1999-2000 to 2001-02, the report examines how the price of attendance for full-time freshmen changed for various types of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Tuition, Higher Education, Costs
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2008
Since 2000, the "Measuring Up" report cards have evaluated the progress of the nation and individual states in providing Americans with education and training beyond high school through the bachelor's degree. The purpose of the series is to assist the nation and the states in improving higher education opportunity and effectiveness.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
Direct linkMinnesota Higher Education Services Office, 2004
This report contains data on the number and dollar amounts of Minnesota State Grants received by Minnesota undergraduates for Fiscal Year 2004 (academic year 2003-2004). Minnesota State Grants are coordinated with Federal Pell Grants, so the tables and graphs also show combined Federal Pell and State Grant awards. In addition, since ability to pay…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Income, Grants, Student Financial Aid
Peer reviewedDavis, Houston D.; Noland, Brian E.; McDonald, Nicole – Journal of College Orientation and Transition, 2001
Identified and analyzed the college participation decisions of 13,000 eligible non-recipients of Tennessee state financial aid in fall 1999. Found that 81 percent were enrolled in higher education, but the negative effects of non-receipt of state aid and preexisting economic conditions were found in patterns of institution selection and in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, Enrollment Influences, Financial Aid Applicants
Peer reviewedPaulsen, Michael B.; St. John, Edward P. – Journal of Higher Education, 2002
Examined how students' enrollment responses to college costs--both in college choice and persistence decisions--vary by social class. Found substantial class-based patterns of enrollment behavior in response to prematriculation perceptions of college costs and actual postmatriculation costs, consistently restricting postsecondary opportunities for…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Attendance, College Choice
Cunningham, Alisa F.; Erisman, Wendy; Looney, Shannon E. – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2008
This report examines access to higher education in underserved regions of Michigan. This study focuses on specific concerns about postsecondary education access in three geographically diverse areas of the state: suburban Macomb County; the city of Saginaw; and six rural counties in the northeastern Lower Peninsula. The report provides a summary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Counties, Context Effect
Peer reviewedHeller, Donald E. – Student Aid Transcript, 2001
Discusses a report from the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, "Access Denied: Restoring the Nation's Commitment to Equal Educational Opportunity," which found that, despite an extended period of national prosperity, there has been disappointing progress toward equal educational opportunity. Discusses the report's recommended four…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Government Role
Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Brian K. – Change, 2004
Despite federal investments in student aid--plus tax credits exceeding $70 billion and state expenditures for institutions and students exceeding $65 billion--record high financial barriers erected by recent changes in tuition and financial aid have prevented hundreds of thousands of college-qualified high school graduates from enrolling in…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Economically Disadvantaged, High School Graduates, Higher Education
