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Goldrick-Rab, Sara; York, Travis; Cady, Clare; Baker-Smith, Christy – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2021
Public universities are intent on increasing degree completion for many reasons. A stronger policy focus on completion and interest in removing students' financial hurdles has led to a rapid proliferation of completion grant programs. This paper reports on a mixed-method implementation study of completion grant programs at seven broad- and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Graduation, Grants, Student Financial Aid
Goldrick-Rab, Sara; York, Travis; Cady, Clare; Baker-Smith, E. Christine – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: Public universities are intent on increasing degree completion for many reasons. A stronger policy focus on completion and interest in removing students' financial hurdles has led to a rapid proliferation of completion grant programs. This paper reports on a mixed method implementation study of completion grant programs at seven broad-…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Graduation, Grants, Student Financial Aid
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Ohlson, Matthew A.; Shope, Shane C.; Johnson, Jerry D. – Rural Educator, 2020
Faculty from two universities in Florida and Ohio designed, developed, and implemented programs to work with youth from their respective service regions to support college and career readiness initiatives. Both programs were directed by university faculty and utilized university resources to support K-12 students' career development skills. In…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Rural Schools, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Bell, Alli – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2019
Since 2016, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO), with generous support from Lumina Foundation, has been working with states to explore establishing "promise-type" aid programs for adult students (adult promise programs). SHEEO is currently working with 15 states to implement adult promise programs through…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid
Amechi, Mauriell H. – New America, 2022
Despite the growing popularity of WBL, the community college and workforce development fields need greater transparency and clarity on the design of these programs to broaden workforce pathways, ensure the transferability of exemplary program models, and support the advancement of equitable outcomes for all students, especially learners from…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship
Klempin, Serena; Pellegrino, Lauren; Lopez, Andrea G.; Barnett, Elisabeth A.; Lawton, Julia – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
A range of efforts are underway to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of advising and student supports. Among these is the Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) initiative. Launched in 2015, the initiative provided three years of financial, technical, and change management support to 26 two- and four-year institutions…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Technology Integration
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Kim, Younhee – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
A capstone experience, as an exit degree requirement, allows Master of Public Administration (MPA) students to build quasi-experimental practices by applying learned knowledge and skills throughout their curriculum in the United States. Accredited MPA programs have implemented their capstone courses differently to achieve required standards. Small…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Public Administration Education, Program Design, Professional Education
Jones, Dennis P. – National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2016
This is the third paper on the topic of outcomes-based funding written by Dennis Jones for Complete College America. The first paper, "Performance Funding: From Idea to Action" (ED535356), proposed a set of design and implementation principles to help states develop and implement their own outcomes-based funding models. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Funding Formulas, Program Effectiveness, Models
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2017
Both Ohio's state leadership and its foundation community recognized that, to move forward in a global economy, Ohio would need a highly trained workforce that would attract high tech companies to the state. Though STEM shortages have been a pervasive problem for decades, with the election of a new Governor in 2008, there was call to action from…
Descriptors: Fellowships, Teacher Education Programs, Universities, Intercollegiate Cooperation
Ndiaye, Mamadou; Wolfe, Rebecca E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Early college high school models are designed to encourage and assist traditionally underrepresented groups of students- low income, Latino, and African-American- to persist in and graduate from high school while earning college credit. Some of the models target high school dropouts, with the aim of helping them acquire the education and training…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Success, Advanced Placement Programs
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Wakefield, Thomas P. – PRIMUS, 2014
The purpose of this article is to describe the actuarial science program at our university and the development of a course to enhance students' problem solving skills while preparing them for Exam P/1 of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Casualty Actuary Society (CAS). The Exam P/1 prep course, formally titled Mathematical Foundations of…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Curriculum Enrichment, Test Preparation, Risk Assessment
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Anthony, Anika B.; Greene, Howard; Post, Paul E.; Parkhurst, Andrew; Zhan, Xi – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
This paper describes an engineering outreach programme designed to increase the interest of under-represented youth in engineering and to disseminate pre-engineering design challenge materials to K-12 educators and volunteers. Given university students' critical role as facilitators of the outreach programme, researchers conducted a two-year…
Descriptors: College Students, Outreach Programs, Program Descriptions, Engineering Education
Huss, John A. – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2007
This study investigated the attitudes of principals toward the legitimacy of pre-service teacher preparation programs conducted wholly or almost wholly online. Random cluster sampling was utilized to select participants in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. A total of 326 principals completed questionnaires. Principals expressed apprehension about…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Questionnaires, Principals, Online Courses
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Rosenbusch, Marcia Harmon; Sorensen, Laurie – Learning Languages, 2004
The experience described by Kay Hoag, Advocacy Chair of the National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL), exemplifies the threat of program elimination and/or cutbacks that elementary school foreign language programs across the nation experienced with increased frequency during the 2002-2003 academic year. Reports of these threats…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Second Language Learning, FLES