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The Relationship between 3-Year Cohort Default Rates, Graduation Rates, Student Demographic Characteristics, and 90/10 Status in the Proprietary School Sector
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Hill, Justin – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Public Law 105-244 of the 1998 Higher Education Act Amendments established that proprietary institutions must derive at least 90% (the "90/10 rule") of their revenue from sources other than federal student aid (Title IV funding). Schools that violate the 90/10 rule for 2 consecutive years lose access to Title IV funding (U.S. Department…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Graduation Rate, Student Characteristics, Educational Finance
The Dividing Lines of Opportunity: The Relationships among Student Characteristics and Selected Institutional Services at Two-Year Public and For-Profit Colleges
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Gilblom, Elizabeth Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined if and to what extent selected institutional services and special learning and credit opportunities in the 2-year private, for-profit college sector and community colleges in the United States are related to race, socioeconomic status and urbanicity. The researcher evaluated whether the institutional services and special…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Two Year College Students, Public Colleges, Proprietary Schools
Three Studies on Student Outcomes in Higher Education
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Cannon, Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation contains chapters that explore higher education policy issues related to student outcomes. In the first chapter, I examine the results of a controlled randomized trial of a brief, inexpensive phone call outreach to a sample of Pell eligible students at the University of Missouri intended to increase FAFSA filing, on-time FAFSA…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Outreach Programs
Pell Grants Are a Waste of Taxpayer Money: A Study of the Effects of Pell Grants on Persistence in For-Profit Four-Year Colleges
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Filerino, William J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This ex post facto study examined the relationship between Pell Grant aid and persistence of for-profit four-year college students enrolled during 2003-04 through the next six years in the United States and Puerto Rico. This study examined the demographic dissimilarities in students based on age, gender, financial aid status and ethnicity of those…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Grants, Student Financial Aid, Demography
For-Profit versus Nonprofit Colleges: A Predictive Study of Student Retention in Two-Year Community Colleges
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Daly, Jon C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Student retention has been a significant issue in higher education for several decades. "Two-year colleges" tend to have lower retention rates than four-year colleges (Seidman, 2005, ). Low retention is a problem in both two-year for-profit and nonprofit colleges. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the predictors of retention…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Two Year Colleges, Predictor Variables, Community Colleges
Price-Cost Ratios in Higher Education: Subsidy Structure and Policy Implications
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Xie, Yan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The diversity of US institutions of higher education is manifested in many ways. This study looks at that diversity from the economic perspective by studying the subsidy structure through the distribution of institutional price-cost ratio (PCR), defined as the sum of net tuition price divided by total supplier cost and equals to one minus…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics, Grants