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Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2020
The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) adopted the Master Plan for Tennessee Postsecondary Education 2015-2025 in 2015. Published as Tennessee was launching the Drive to 55, the 2015-2025 Plan includes state and system-level projections of the necessary degree production to reach our state's ambitious attainment goal. As a complement to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Success, Labor Force Development, Postsecondary Education
Brymner, Jake – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2020
The COVID-19 health crisis has laid bare the structural inequity in the financial aid system. The pandemic has hit the lowest-income students hardest, with many struggling to afford the basic technology for online learning on top of new or exacerbated food and housing insecurity. Federal and state dollars predicated on Pell Grant eligibility, time…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Student Financial Aid, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Atchison, E. S. – Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, 2014
The Mississippi Public Universities Research Catalog is mandated by the State through the University Research Center Act of 1988 (§ 37-141-17). The publication lists the funding amounts by the sources of funding and by the university disciplines receiving the funding. It is designed for use by state policy makers, the educational community,…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Intellectual Disciplines, Public Colleges, Research
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Alexander, F. King; Arceneaux, Ashley – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2015
Financial aid makes up the bulk of federal higher education spending, but do those dollars make a difference to needy students? A look at Federal Work-Study and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant allocations show that a disproportionate amount of funding goes to private universities with high tuition and low Federal Pell Grant…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Student Financial Aid
Jessell, Kenneth A. – National Association of College and University Business Officers, 2013
"CFO Perspectives" is a series of white papers that examines at role of the CFO within different institutional or operational settings. Each white paper, available free from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and released periodically during 2012, NACUBO's 50th anniversary year, focuses on the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Administrators, Educational Finance, College Administration
Baylor, Elizabeth – Center for American Progress, 2014
Earning a college degree or credential can be life changing and economically sustaining. That is why it is critically important that America's system of public colleges remain affordable for all Americans. However, Center for American Progress (CAP) analysis estimates that annual student-loan borrowing increased by $17 billion in the five years…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Paying for College
Fishman, Rachel; Ekowo, Manuela; Ezeugo, Ernest – New America, 2017
Americans believe in the tremendous potential of higher education--but they also feel that higher education is falling short of that promise. New America's inaugural annual poll about perceptions of higher education reveals a gap between what higher education could, and should, be and what higher education currently is. "Varying Degrees: New…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attitudes, Public Opinion, Social Mobility
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Radwin, David; Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Nunnery, Annaliza; Lacy, T. Austin; Wu, Joanna; Lew, Stephen; Wine, Jennifer; Siegel, Peter – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This First Look report presents selected findings about student financial aid during the 2015-16 academic year. These findings are based on data from the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16), a nationally representative sample survey of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled any time between July 1, 2015, and June 30,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Paying for College
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2018
Advanced education contributes to greater individual and regional prosperity, including increased earnings, improved economic growth, greater levels of community engagement and improved health outcomes. Rising costs to students and families combined with a student body that may require additional resources to ensure its success, however, may make…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Budgets, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Roof, Andrew N., Ed.; Robinson, Christopher, Ed.; Thompson, Jeff, Ed.; Turner, Kenneth, Ed. – South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, 2018
The "South Carolina Higher Education Statistical Abstract" is a comprehensive, single-source compilation of tables and graphs which report data frequently requested by the Governor, Legislators, college and university staff, other state government officials, and the general public. The 2018 edition of the Statistical Abstract marks the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Academic Degrees, Graduation Rate
Casteen, John T., III – Trusteeship, 2011
The reductions in state tax support for public universities that began around 1990 and continue today are progressively redefining relations between government and public higher education. The reasons for the drop in appropriations per student vary from state to state and include aging electorates, voter fervor for tax cuts, and mandated…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Finance, State Aid, Financial Support
Hunt Institute, 2016
This briefing was prepared for the 2016 Virginia Education Summit. The report is comprised of questions and answers in the following sections: (1) K-12; (2) Workforce; and (3) Postsecondary. The K-12 section addresses the following questions: (1) What does the K-12 landscape look like in the Commonwealth? (2) How are students performing in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Force, Postsecondary Education, Academic Achievement
Division of Community Colleges, Iowa Department of Education, 2015
The community college tuition and fees report is prepared each fiscal year. The report includes trends in tuition and fees among Iowa's community colleges, as well as comparisons to other states and to Iowa's public universities. Median total in-state cost of enrollment for a full-time student enrolled in Iowa's community colleges will be $164.50…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Kelderman, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Before last year, public colleges in Tennessee had a very good reason to fill classroom seats through the first couple of weeks of the term. Each institution's share of the state appropriations for higher education was largely based on enrollment at that point in the semester. Now, however, those colleges stand to lose state money if students do…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Finance, State Aid, State Legislation
Baum, Sandy; Ma, Jennifer; Pender, Matea; Welch, Meredith – College Board, 2017
This report provides a detailed look at the sources and distribution of grants, loans, and other student aid for the most recent academic year and how this funding has changed over time. The federal government provided two-thirds of all student aid in 2016-17, but only one-third of the grant aid. In the context of uncertainty about the timing of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Grants, Student Loan Programs
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