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Dae Y. Kim; Karin Gegenheimer – Research for Action, 2023
In 2015, Tennessee launched Tennessee Promise (TN Promise), one of the most comprehensive and well-funded statewide free-college scholarship programs in the country. To support TN Promise students, and especially those from the lowest-income households, tnAchieves, a key partner facilitating all non-financial components of TN Promise, implemented…
Descriptors: College Programs, Scholarships, State Programs, Outcomes of Education
Marisela Cervantes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Calls for greater equity are ubiquitous in higher education policy, both at the state and institutional level. The California College Promise and the local programs through which its benefit of tuition-free community college is accessed, are part of this trend, making it critically important to understand how equity is framed, understood, and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Leadership Role, Equal Education, Community Colleges
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Debbie H. Kim; Kelly Krupa Rifelj – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Promise programs are a quickly spreading policy tool in the free college movement. Despite their rapid spread, promise programs remain generally untested and there is even less information about how they are implemented. Research Questions: (1) In what ways were The Degree Project's (TDP) theory of change and intents represented in…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Practices, Program Implementation, Incentives
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Debbie Kim; Kelly Rifelj – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: Promise scholarship programs are a quickly spreading policy tool in the free college movement. Despite their rapid spread, promise programs remain generally untested and there is even less information about how they are implemented. Focus of study: We study the implementation and effects of the nation's first randomized control trial…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Practices, Program Implementation, Incentives
Rauner, Mary; Lundquist, Sara – WestEd, 2019
The California College Promise Policy brief outlines the policy landscape that helped fuel the growth of College Promise in California. It reflects on issues that have arisen as the state's College Promise legislation and reforms have been implemented, and offers recommendations for maximizing the equity and impact of the California model of…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Policy, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Palfreyman, David – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2015
This article explores the new Legislative Act concerned with the "Risk of Being Drawn into Terrorism" and the need for "Preventing People Being Drawn into Terrorism." It provides consultation and guidance to specified authorities such as universities on how they should go about implementing this "Prevent" duty. The…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Emergency Programs, Crisis Management, College Programs
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Shih, Chih-Min – Perspectives in Education, 2012
To nudge students to study English and to improve their English proficiency, many universities in Taiwan have imposed an English graduation benchmark on their students. This article reviews this policy, using the theoretic framework for education policy analysis proposed by Haddad and Demsky (1995). The author presents relevant research findings,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Benchmarking
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Daale, Hans – Community College Review, 2010
Since 2006, the Netherlands has been actively engaged in a process of developing, piloting, and institutionalizing a new 2-year, short-cycle higher education degree, titled the "associate degree". This initiative evolved as a collaborative grassroots effort spearheaded by several Dutch national higher education and business organizations…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Associate Degrees, Foreign Countries
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Kehm, Barbara M.; Michelsen, Svein; Vabo, Agnete – Higher Education Policy, 2010
This article describes and analyses changes made in the organisation of higher education studies in Germany and Norway, following the recommendations of the Bologna Declaration. In both countries, the characteristic modes of university study have been circumscribed by the tradition of Humboldtian values and ideals, albeit to a different extent. On…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Cotayo, Rosa Maria, Ed. – 1979
Papers are presented from the New Jersey Department of Higher Education Summer Institute. Focus is on sociolinguistic, anthropological, social psychological, pedagogical, and socio-political-economic considerations. Each analyzes particular factors that influence the form and quality of bilingual policy and instruction programs, and offers…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, College Programs
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1988
A study examined the views and experiences of a wide range of British individuals and organizations with a stake in the success of efforts to extend information technology programs to groups who have been traditionally underrepresented in them. A variety of research methods were used, including in-depth interviews, workshops, questionnaires, and a…
Descriptors: College Programs, Counseling Services, Curriculum Development, Dropouts
HR & H Marketing Research International, Ltd., London (England). – 1985
A study evaluated procedures currently used to market adult education at five colleges in Great Britain. Data were collected from roundtable discussions with the principals and vice-principals of the five participating colleges and from interviews and questionnaires administered to staff members from each college and to representatives of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advertising, Advisory Committees, Change Strategies
Knapper, Christopher K.; Cropley, Arthur J. – 2000
This book, which is intended for academics, educators, educational managers, and policymakers concerned with higher education, examines how universities and colleges can prepare their students for lifelong learning through continuing education, specialized courses for adults, and mainstream teaching programs geared toward traditional students. The…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Articulation (Education)
Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). – 2000
This document contains a total of 57 welcoming speeches, theme addresses, seminar and workshop papers, and poster sessions that were presented at a conference on technological education and national development. The papers explore the ways technology and technological advances have both necessitated and enabled changes in the way education is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)