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Download full textByndloss, D. Crystal; Coven, Rebecca; Kusayeva, Yana; Johnston, Christine; Sherwin, Jay – MDRC, 2015
This guide is designed for counselors, teachers, and advisers who work with high school students from low-income families and students who are the first in their families to pursue a college education. It offers strategies for helping these students identify, consider, and enroll in "match" colleges, that is, selective colleges that are…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, College Choice, Low Income Groups
Holt, Janet K.; Duffy, Daniel Q. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2017
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) sought to identify those institutions helping students overcome barriers to college completion and achieve a livable wage. This analysis of Illinois 4-year postsecondary institutions highlights those institutions which fostered degree completion and job success with less debt for underrepresented…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Colleges
Holt, Janet K.; Duffy, Daniel Q. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2017
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) sought to identify those institutions helping students overcome barriers to college completion and achieve a livable wage. This analysis of Illinois 4-year postsecondary institutions highlights those institutions which fostered degree completion and job success with less debt for underrepresented…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Colleges
Byndloss, D. Crystal; Reid, Chera – MDRC, 2013
Most high school reform efforts understandably focus on boosting the success of low-income students who are underachieving academically, but in every school district where students struggle, there are academically capable low-income and minority students who do graduate prepared for college. Yet each year, many of these students choose to attend…
Descriptors: High School Students, Low Income Groups, Academic Achievement, Underachievement
Peer reviewedZollinger, Richard A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1984
Evaluates the success of financial aid programs in increasing college choices for minorities and women of high and low achievement in Illinois. Contrasts the goal of increasing choice with that of broadening access to postsecondary education, and urges that the two objectives be resolved. (MCG)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Choice, Educational Status Comparison, Females
Peer reviewedFlint, Thomas A. – Review of Higher Education, 1993
An Illinois study found that parents' (n=823) college savings and awareness of college financial aid possibilities had significant indirect effects on the tuition levels of colleges under consideration. Effects of a number of other demographic variables and knowledge factors were found. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
PDF pending restorationCarlson, Mary S., Ed.; Berlet, Chip, Ed. – 1976
In the present complex and changing context students and families are looking for information tools to help them identify financial planning constants to allow them to reduce the number of unknown factors that can be barriers to the completion of a personal financial package to cover the cost of higher education. This handbook is designed to…
Descriptors: College Choice, Consumer Protection, Decision Making, Educational Economics
Illinois State Scholarship Commission, Deerfield. – 1986
The National Association of State Scholarship and Grant Programs/National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs conference on student aid is reported. Following the conference agenda and lists of registrants and conference speakers, the following papers are presented: (1) "Reinterpretation of Hansen's Census Data" (John B. Lee); (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Black Students, College Choice
Illinois State Scholarship Commission, Deerfield. – 1986
The following papers from the National Association of State Scholarship and Grant Programs/National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs conference on student aid are provided: (1) "The Employees Tuition Benefit Programs of the Fortune 1000 Companies: Summary of Survey Results" (Joseph P. O'Neill); (2) "The Interaction of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Choice, Federal Aid
