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Direct linkKristopher Lee Hatcher – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In the United States, postsecondary educational attainment positively correlates to the probability of a person being employed and the amount of money they earn (U.S. Department of Labor, 2018). Financial aid programs attempt to help students afford, remain in, and finish their postsecondary pursuits, but Levin (1989) asserted some forms of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Tuition, State Colleges, Student Costs
James R. Hagler Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Consolidation has been practiced in governments, school districts, and business for many years and in higher education since the early 1900s with the primary focus on the efficiency and financial savings found in the process. The nine consolidations in the University System of Georgia (USG) were driven by six principles which sought to achieve…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Consolidated Schools, Organizational Change, Educational Change
Download full textBickerstaff, Susan; Kopko, Elizabeth; Lewy, Erika B.; Raufman, Julia; Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2021
Despite evidence suggesting that standardized tests are an imperfect measure of academic readiness, many community colleges across the country rely on them alone to determine student course placement. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced campuses to transition to remote operations in spring 2020, proctoring in-person placement tests became…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Placement, Alternative Assessment
Peer reviewedMartinez, Paul S. – Journal of Research Administration, 2019
Prior to the passing of California Assembly Bill 20 (AB20) and the implementation of the California Model Agreement (CMA) in 2015, the proposal and award process for the California public university systems and the state of California was slow-moving, administratively burdensome, and inconsistent in contracting for research, training, and public…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Program Implementation, Contracts
Stewart, Jamie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In 2013, the state of Florida passed Senate Bill 1720, which reformed developmental education and gateway courses across the state of Florida. There was a gap in the research regarding how the institutions planned and implemented the changes necessary to comply with the bill. This basic qualitative study examined the strategies used by leaders to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, State Colleges, Community Colleges, Change Strategies
Sepanik, Susan; Safran, Stephanie; Saco, Larissa – MDRC, 2018
In the United States today, more jobs than ever before require at least some postsecondary education. Yet too many young adults are either not enrolling or not succeeding in college. This scenario exists across many different types of communities, but schools in rural areas, particularly those with large populations of low-income students, face…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Schools, Alignment (Education), Public Schools
