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Reichert, Katrina – Jobs for the Future, 2012
From Washington to Connecticut, Arkansas to Indiana, state policymakers and community college leaders are focused on building completion pathways to ensure that more students succeed in postsecondary education and make smooth transitions to careers. Financial aid is both an effective and a necessary policy lever to promote this goal. Not only do…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid, College Preparation, College Readiness
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Kenyon, Kristi; Frohard-Dourlent, Helene; Roth, Wendy D. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012
As Canadian universities seek to attract more international students, there is a need to recognize and respond to the diversity within this group and to question the binary categories of domestic students and international students. Relying primarily on 116 qualitative interviews with international undergraduates at the University of British…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Foreign Students, Classification
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Lumadue, Richard T. – Christian Higher Education, 2006
Graduate degrees prostitute the educational process when they are sold to consumers by unaccredited degree/diploma mills as being equivalent to legitimate, bona-fide degrees awarded by accredited graduate schools. This article carefully analyzes the serious problems of bogus degrees and their association with the religious higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Degrees, Validity, Academic Standards
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Osipian, Ararat L. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
Corruption is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Forms of corruption are multiple. Measuring corruption is necessary not only for getting ideas about the scale and scope of the problem, but for making simple comparisons between the countries and conducting comparative analysis of corruption. While the total impact of corruption is indeed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Context Effect, Cheating