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Enrollment Pathways to Financial Sustainability: Choosing the Road Less Traveled
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Supplee, Janice L. – Christian Higher Education, 2014
Rising costs, burgeoning debt, and falling credit ratings are among the financial challenges faced by small, tuition-dependent private colleges, including many members of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU). In their efforts to generate more revenue, most of these institutions have focused on enrollment strategies as the…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Private Colleges, Financial Support, Sustainability
The Growth of Education Revenues from 1998-2006: An Update on What Accounts for Differences among States and the District of Columbia in the Context of Adequacy
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Alexander, Nicola A. – Educational Considerations, 2012
This article is an update of a previous study by the author which examined the growth of elementary and public school revenues for school years 1982-1983 through 1991-1992 (Alexander 1997). Using the same framework, this study provides an analysis of the factors accounting for changes in real per-pupil revenues across the 50 states and the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Income, Economic Progress, Economic Development
Towards "Lisbon Objectives": Economic Determinants of Participation Rates in University Education--An Empirical Analysis in 14 European Countries
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Agasisti, Tommaso – Higher Education Quarterly, 2009
Participation rates in higher education are an important indicator to pursue one of the main European policy objectives, which is to increase the proportion of population attending higher education. A model used to detect the determinants of participation rates is proposed in this paper, and it is empirically tested for 14 European countries…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Educational Finance
Reaching for the Goal: The Persistence and Engagement of Vocational Students in a Community College
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Pham, Hoa – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Occupational students constitute the majority of enrollments at community colleges; yet little is known whether students in career and technical programs persist in their education and attain degrees in their program of study. The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of engagement of students enrolled in vocational programs at one…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Statistical Significance
Models for Predicting School District Fiscal Stress: One Size Does Not Fit All
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De Luca, Barbara M. – Journal of Education Finance, 2006
The purpose of this research is to investigate factors that contribute to fiscal problems for public school districts in order to develop a model using benchmarks for maintaining fiscal health. School district revenues and expenditures are analyzed in order to identify patterns that can be used to predict financial stress. Of the 606 school…
Descriptors: School District Spending, School District Wealth, Enrollment Rate, Educational Finance
The Enrollment Effects of Federal Student Aid Policies.
Carroll, Stephen J.; And Others – 1977
An empirical approach is taken to the problem of predicting effects of student financial aid programs on postsecondary enrollment rates and patterns. A model of students' enrollment decisions is developed and used to estimate the likely effects of alternative award policies for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program. The analysis…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Bound Students, College Choice, Educational Economics