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Beck, Leesa; Wright, Alexis – College and University, 2019
The oldest Millennials are now well-established in their careers, requesting flex schedules so they can take their kids to soccer practice in the afternoons; they have little in common with the typical 18- to 22-year-old undergraduate in many college classrooms. For faculty at campuses serving primarily traditional students, it seems like a good…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Age Groups, Student Characteristics, Cohort Analysis
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Smith, Kelli K. – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
Historical context informs the work of student affairs professionals and others in higher education in striking the right balance in helping prepare students for life after college, but significant new pressures face students, their mentors, and educational institutions today. This chapter discusses the contexts that shape the work of student…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Context Effect, Developmental Studies Programs, Transitional Programs
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Warren, John Robert; Kulick, Rachael B. – Social Forces, 2007
We present five frameworks for explaining which U.S. states adopted high school exit examination policies at particular points in time. The frameworks correspond to issues of academic achievement, education spending, economic conditions, racial/ethnic heterogeneity and policy diffusion. Using event history techniques we find that states with…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, State Surveys, High Schools, Economic Factors
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Pennington, Kevin L.; McGinty, Dixie; Williams, Mitchell R. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
Discusses a study that investigated the ability of national economic trends to predict enrollment in community colleges. Reports that unemployment rate, gross domestic product, dollars disposable income, and personal consumption expenditures are good indicators of trends in community college enrollment, but that consumer price index and average…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Climate, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
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Feather, John – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1982
Three types of macro-level variables for program analysis--cultural, economic and demographic--provide a context for evaluation and offer alternative explanations for program success or failure. The problems of causality and availability of data, as well as the usefulness of macro variables in meta evaluation are discussed. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Data Analysis, Demography, Economic Factors
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Campbell, S. Duke; Greenberg, Barry – 1979
The development of a predictive equation capable of explaining a significant percentage of enrollment variability at Florida International University is described. A model utilizing trend analysis and a multiple regression approach to enrollment forecasting was adapted to investigate enrollment dynamics at the university. Four independent…
Descriptors: College Planning, Conference Reports, Economic Factors, Enrollment Projections
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Yates, Andrew J. – Journal of Economic Education, 1998
Maintains that the equal marginal value principle may not be optimal in the analysis of the cost-effectiveness of policies to reduce auto emissions, the economics of garbage disposal, and the economics of pollution abatement. Argues that examining these exceptions can help students understand the equal marginal value principle. (MJP)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
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Grenier, Gilles; Vaillancourt, Francois – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Although economic considerations are influential in one's success or failure at second language learning, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors should not be overlooked. Suggests that a fuller understanding of language acquisition and language behavior might be gained by a combined analysis of economic data (human capital model), family…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Economic Factors, English (Second Language), Family Characteristics
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Vanderkamp, John – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1984
The time pattern of university participation rates and the variations across provinces in the light of economic analysis are discussed. While cost factors, tuition fees and student aid have changed significantly, it is argued that their quantitative impact is unlikely to account for a major part of the enrollment increase. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Attendance, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors, Enrollment Projections
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Vaage, Gjermund; Kohn, Robert E. – Journal of Economic Education, 1998
Examines two classes of production functions in which the long-run competitive equilibrium scale of the firm increases when the relative price of the dominant factor decreases. Compares these with a third class of production functions where the equilibrium scale is independent of the relative price of the dominant factor. (MJP)
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Causal Models, Competition, Cost Indexes
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Sander, William; Krautmann, Anthony C. – Economics of Education Review, 1991
Examines effects of local taxes and schooling on private nonfarm employment growth in Illinois since 1980, assessing educational outcomes determinants (ACT scores, school attendance, and dropout rates). Jobs are negatively affected by property taxes, positively affected by ACT scores, and unaffected by expenditures per pupil. Family background…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Rate, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship