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Franke, Ray – ProQuest LLC, 2012
To compete in the global marketplace, the U.S. economy heavily relies on higher education institutions to educate the college graduates and knowledge workers needed to create the innovative products and services of tomorrow. And yet, where once America led the world in educational attainment, recent data from the Organization for Economic…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Educational Attainment, Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid), Merit Scholarships
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Mamiseishvili, Ketevan; Koch, Lynn C. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2011
The authors used the data from the "Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study" survey (BPS:04/06) to (a) examine the characteristics of the national sample of college students with disabilities and (b) identify the factors that influenced their first-to-second-year persistence in U.S. postsecondary institutions. Students with…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Grade Point Average, Social Integration, Academic Persistence