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Download full textBozick, Robert; Gonzalez, Gabriella; Engberg, John – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2015
The Pittsburgh Promise is a scholarship program that provides $5,000 per year toward college tuition for public high school graduates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who earned a 2.5 GPA and a 90% attendance record. This study used a difference-in-difference design to assess whether the introduction of the Promise scholarship program directly…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Management
Leigh, Rachel A. – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to trace the policy production process of a state agency, the Iowa College Student Aid Commission (Commission), to its function today. This case study relied on a review of federal and state statutes, a news article search, biennium reports of the Commission, and information obtained from the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs, Educational Change
Peer reviewedDeBord, Larry W.; Millner, Steven M. – Equity and Excellence, 1993
Presents the case study of the educational experiences of African-American graduate students at the University of Mississippi using information from a survey responded to by 158 graduate students. At this university, nonservice fellowships and tuition waivers are offered to African-American graduate students. Results highlight differences in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Black Students, Case Studies
Wirtz, Willard – 1979
This monograph presents a summary and analysis of case study reports on three highly used tuition assistance programs. The programs are those of the Education Fund of District Council 37 of AFSCME; Polaroid Corporation's Tuition Assistance Plan; and the Education Opportunities Plan of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The case studies describe the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Knox, Kathleen – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the factors that account for the sustained and unusually high rate of participation in tuition-assisted education by Polaroid employees. Information was gathered by interviews with Polaroid management officials in the Human Resources Development Group; staff of the Education and Career Planning Department; and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Educational Opportunities, Employer Attitudes
Rosow, Leslie A. – 1979
Adult Americans have been participating in formal education and training programs in record numbers in recent years. Yet studies of participation by working Americans in tuition assistance programs have consistently revealed that few take advantage of them. This report describes and analyzes the Kimberly-Clark Corporation's tuition-assistance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship
Education Fund of District Council 37: A Case Study. Worker Education and Training Policies Project.
Shore, Jane – 1979
This report describes and analyzes the programs of the Education Fund of District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in New York City. The Education Fund is a program carried out by the union to provide a wide variety of educational curricula, many on its premises, for the union's thousands of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Case Studies
Wish, John; de Vriend, Wim – 1973
This report analyzes some effects of the ways in which some $132 million in state and local taxes will be spent on Oregon higher education. These effects are evaluated in the light of some socioeconomic objectives. Discussed are: (1) the important components in state subsidies for higher education--institutional subsidies, need grants, scholarship…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems, Educational Benefits
Rademacher, Ida; Bear, Marshall; Conway, Maureen – 2001
Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) was begun in 1992 to provide unemployed and working poor residents of San Antonio, Texas, with employment training and job placement services. The program provides tuition subsidies and ancillary support services to low-income San Antonio residents enrolled in two-year associate's degree…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Associate Degrees, Basic Skills, Case Studies
