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Knoer, Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Following the events of September 11, 2001, Student Veterans have emerged as "one of the fastest-growing subpopulations of nontraditional college students" (Schiavone & Gentry, 2014, p. 29). Military veterans transition from active-duty service into higher education and civilian life facing a variety of new challenges and experiences…
Descriptors: Veterans, Student Adjustment, College Students, Student Experience
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Zafari, Zafar; Goldman, Lee; Kovrizhkin, Katherine; Muennig, Peter – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To quantify students' risk tolerance for in-person classes and willingness-to-pay for online-only instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: 46 Columbia University public health graduate students. Methods: We developed a survey tool with a "standard gamble" exercise administered online by an interactive chat bot…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Tuition, Risk Assessment, Student Behavior
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Bass, Elizabeth – Educational Studies, 2021
The Post-9/11 GI Bill provides educational assistance to veterans and certain dependents. Veterans have had educational benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs since World War II, but no prior GI bill programmes have been as comprehensive or administratively complex. Covered benefits include all tuition and fees at any public…
Descriptors: Veterans, Federal Legislation, Paying for College, Student Costs
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Sarita Cargas; Tammy Thomas – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2024
There have now been fifteen years of research on the basic needs of college students in the U.S. The studies have primarily focused on assessing the prevalence of food and housing insecurity. Determining who is responsible and finding solutions have been less emphasized. The scholarship has also not framed the problems of students' basic needs…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Civil Rights, Hunger
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Anita Manion – Higher Education Policy, 2024
This study seeks to assess whether self-interest influences support for two policies to cancel student debt--one forgiving all student debt and one taking a means-tested approach to debt forgiveness. Each of these policy proposals offers a material benefit to certain groups of individuals while imposing cost or having no benefit to others, which…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment, Taxes, Predictor Variables
Lance Vanderberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Across the United States, colleges and universities must dynamically respond to changes in population demographics and demand in order to meet enrollment goals. As institutions have adapted to a shifting educational landscape, tuition discounting has become a prevalent mechanism utilized within strategic enrollment management. While many students…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Paying for College, Grants
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Phillip A. Morris; Jeff Deickman; Kari McIntyre; Valerie Roberts; E. Michael Bohlig – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study used responses from 17,354 student veterans on the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) to investigate the relationship between student engagement and likelihood of withdrawal. Student veterans who utilized campus services more often, and those who perceived campus services as important, reported a higher likelihood of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Veterans Education, Learner Engagement, Withdrawal (Education)
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Gloria L. Bernal; Luz K. Abadía; Luis E. Álvarez-Arango; Kristof De Witte – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Low-income students' preferences for higher education might depend on the uncertainty of financial aid. Using a time discontinuity design, this paper exploits the unanticipated cancellation of a nationwide Colombian merit and need-based scholarship, called "Ser Pilo Paga," to study its consequences on students' preferences for higher…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Preferences
Candace Marie Henry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of first-generation Black women who completed at least a bachelor's degree without student loans. While Black women are most burdened by student loan debt, little is known about the experiences of those who navigate college without accruing student loans. Combining endarkened…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), First Generation College Students, Females, College Graduates
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Chuma Mbaleki; Munienge Mbodila – Africa Education Review, 2022
Decreasing real value in fiscal allocations to higher education is crippling the sector's ability to effectively respond to its broader social and economic transformation mandate enjoined in the South African Constitution. Improving student access, retention, and throughput rate are leading priorities of the Department of Higher Education and…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Higher Education, Disadvantaged Schools, Foreign Countries
National Association of College and University Business Officers, 2019
The "2019 Tuition Discounting Study," based on survey responses from 366 private nonprofit National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)-member institutions, reports final institutional discount rates for academic year 2018-19 and preliminary estimates for academic year 2019-20. [This study was supported by…
Descriptors: Tuition, Private Colleges, Fees, Paying for College
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2023
This report outlines key data elements related to the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE), Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP), and Professional Student Exchange Program (PSEP) for the 2022-23 academic year and is a core resource for policymakers, institutional leaders, counselors and other stakeholders across the region. This report…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Graduate Study, Data, Undergraduate Study
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2023
This report by the Affordable Student Housing Taskforce is presented to the Board of Governors for consideration and approval. The Taskforce was comprised of California Community College four Board of Governors members, stakeholders, and college professionals, including representatives from the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, the…
Descriptors: Student Costs, College Housing, Community College Students, State Aid
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Soliz, Adela; Ecton, Walter – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
This study explores whether the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Program, the largest federal investment in community colleges in this nation's history, expanded and improved vocational training programs. We find that, on average, the completion of credentials in career-technical fields increased at…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Community Colleges, Vocational Education
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Escobar, Claudia; Friedmann, Elizabeth; Tovar, Silvia – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Promise programs have grown in popularity as a way to provide college tuition/fees and other student supports in the hopes of increasing college access and success. This chapter presents results from a comprehensive mixed-methods evaluation of the Lake Tahoe Community College Promise Program. Using rich administrative data and interviews with…
Descriptors: Community Programs, College Programs, Program Evaluation, Student Satisfaction
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