ERIC Number: ED404932
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 212
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ISSN: ISSN-1068-9818
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Postsecondary Education Opportunity. The Mortenson Research Seminar on Public Policy Analysis of Opportunity for Postsecondary Education, 1996.
Mortenson, Thomas G., Ed.
Postsecondary Education Opportunity, n43-54 1996
This document is a collection of 12 issues of a monthly report on public policy and programs affecting postsecondary educational opportunity. Each issue contains two or three research articles analyzing postsecondary educational trends. Titles of articles include: "Students with Educational Disabilities"; "Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections: 1994 to 2005"; "Pell Grant Program Participation by State: 1993-1994"; "Freshman-to-Sophomore Persistence by Institutional Level, Control and Academic Selectivity"; "Fiscal Year 1996 State Budget Actions"; "Institutional Graduation Rates by Degree Level, Control and Academic Selectivity"; "Black Males in College or Behind Bars in the United States, 1980 to 1994"; "Earnings of Mid-Career Bachelor's Degree Holders by Major Field of Study in 1993"; "Children, Family Income and College Affordability"; "Public and Private Institutional Charges at Different Levels of Family Income, 1970 to 1994"; "Family Income by Educational Attainment of Householder, 1956 to 1994"; "College Affordability Concerns of College Freshmen Greatest in 30 Years"; "Academic Preparation for College by Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Family Income"; "College Freshmen Numbers Up but Reasons Differ from Past Growth Sources"; "Voting Rates by Educational Attainment"; "Chance for College by Age 19 by State in 1994"; "Federal Income Taxes Paid by College Educated Taxpayers, 1970 to 1994"; "Trends and Patterns in Interstate Migration Of College Freshmen"; "Freshmen Enrolling in College Farther from Home"; "Fiscal Year 1997 State Appropriations for Higher Education: A Year to Cherish"; "High School Grades of College Freshmen: Who Gets What Grades?"; "Pell Grant Program Participation"; "Clinton's Tuition Tax Breaks: Bad Tax Policy, Worse Education Policy"; "Political Engagement of College Students, 1966 to 1995"; "Family Income by Educational Attainment of Householder, 1956 to 1995"; "State Tax Fund Appropriations for Higher Education for Fiscal Year 1997 (and Beyond)"; "Institutional Graduation Rates by Pre-College Academic Records"; "The Story Told by the National Income and Product Accounts"; "Federal, State, Private and Institutional Financial Aid by State, 1994-95." (CH)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Freshmen, College Preparation, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Disabilities, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities, Enrollment Trends, Ethnic Groups, Family Characteristics, Family Income, Higher Education, Paying for College, Public Policy, Sex Differences, Sociocultural Patterns, State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Trend Analysis
Postsecondary Education Opportunity, P.O. Box 127, Iowa City, IA 52244 (Annual subscription: $94 U.S.; $114 elsewhere).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - General
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Pell Grant Program
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