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Daniel Sparks – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation includes three chapters focusing on policies directly related to improving college access and success. The first chapter focuses on lifetime eligibility of federal and state financial aid policies. The Pell Grant plays a critical role in helping students across the US to afford undergraduate education. In spite of its importance…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Access to Education, College Attendance
Roy Y. Chan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Credit hour policies, or performance-based financial aid policies, have become increasingly popular among policymakers seeking to improve degree completion rates. In the Unites States, the college completion agenda has been bolstered by national calls from intermediary organizations and philanthropic foundations alike to raise the overall rate and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, College Credits, Minority Group Students, Full Time Students
Anderson, Drew M.; Zaber, Melanie A. – RAND Corporation, 2021
RAND researchers studied more than 450,000 recipients of New Jersey's Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) -- the nation's most generous state-funded grant program per state resident college student -- to explore whether getting larger amounts of grant aid led to higher graduation rates for students at varying income levels and attending two-year, four-year,…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Higher Education, Tuition, Student Financial Aid
Anderson, Drew M. – RAND Corporation, 2020
State policies to promote postsecondary education historically have been devoted to funding and operating public colleges and universities. Increasingly, states are funding direct aid to their residents to attend public and private colleges within state borders. The majority of state aid is targeted based on the student's family income. States are…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Needs, Low Income Students, Program Effectiveness
Hillman, Nicholas W. – Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Several wealthy colleges and universities have recently begun removing all loans from low-income students' financial aid packages. This article reports on a study that found that the introduction of "no-loan" policies has positively impacted low-income enrollments, suggesting that this aid strategy may be an effective, though limited,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Rate, Low Income Groups, Student Financial Aid
Taliaferro, Wayne; Pham, Duy – Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, 2017
This brief examines how California is aligning education and training opportunities for people who are currently or formerly incarcerated. It is the first report in our series "Reconnecting Justice in the States," which will explore coordinated justice, education, and workforce policy and practice at the state level. It is part of…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Social Justice, Change Strategies
Hilliard, Tom – Jobs for the Future, 2011
In 2007, Michigan undertook a bold mission: to retrain tens of thousands of adults to qualify for jobs in emerging and expanding sectors of the economy. The state's proposal to jobless, dislocated, and low-income residents was simple but appealing: enroll in up to two years of postsecondary education, and Michigan would cover up to $5,000 in…
Descriptors: Credentials, Economic Progress, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges
Schudde, Lauren; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
The Federal Pell Grant Program is the nation's largest need-based grant program. While students' initial eligibility for the Pell is based on financial need, renewal of the award is contingent on their making satisfactory academic progress (SAP)--meeting minimum academic standards similar to those proposed in models of performance-based…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Programs, Student Financial Aid, Academic Achievement
Dynarski, Susan; Scott-Clayton, Judith E. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
A growing body of empirical evidence shows that some financial aid programs increase college enrollment. Puzzlingly, there is little compelling evidence that Pell Grants and Stafford Loans, the primary federal student aid programs, are effective in achieving this goal. In this paper, we provide an in-depth review of this evidence, which taken as a…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Taxes, Student Financial Aid, Enrollment
Kane, Thomas J. – Ford Policy Forum, 2001
Explores the need for the higher education community to rethink the structure of higher education finance from its basic foundations. Suggests that future research focus on how the method of delivery of public subsidies--across-the-board subsidies, in-school interest subsidies on student loans, or Pell Grants--influences their effectiveness for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
Fleischer, Wendy – 2003
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Jobs Initiative is a six-city workforce initiative aimed at helping disadvantaged adults earn their way out of poverty. Between 1995 and 2002, the initiative enrolled more than 17,000 adults and placed 8,090 people in jobs. Most Jobs Initiative participants were working 18 months after enrollment in the program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Colleges, Community Colleges, Disadvantaged
Clery, Sue; Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2007
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue looks at changes in cohort composition. The analysis addresses the changing composition of the Achieving the Dream student cohorts from 2002 to 2005. The data show that at Achieving the Dream colleges, the percentage of Hispanic students increased over the four cohorts…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grants, Educational Trends, Hispanic American Students
McPherson, Michael S. – 1988
This discussion of how the effectiveness of federal student aid can be evaluated is framed in terms of three questions: (1) Has federal student aid expanded educational opportunity; that is, has it encouraged the enrollment and broadened the educational choices of disadvantaged students? (2) Has federal student aid made the distribution of higher…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy