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Venters, Monoka – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2021
Statewide higher education governing and coordinating boards have long been involved in academic planning, academic program review, and academic program approval. A detailed analysis of the templates that statewide boards require institutions to use during the program approval and review processes reveals the role these processes play in ensuring…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Policy, Resource Allocation, Enrollment Trends
Belfield, Clive – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This paper is the first to investigate the costs of institution-wide reforms at community colleges. Drawing on data from 12 community colleges implementing comprehensive guided pathways reforms, I use the ingredients method to analyze the resources required to implement such reforms and examine their feasibility and affordability, as well as their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Jenkins, Davis; Brown, Amy E.; Fay, Maggie P.; Lahr, Hana – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This guide is intended to help community college leaders understand the costs involved in implementing guided pathways reforms and develop plans for funding and sustaining them. It is based on research at six institutions that have implemented large-scale changes based on the guided pathways model, which focuses on supporting students to enter and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Frederick Thurber – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Louisiana concentrates its postsecondary financial aid funding in merit-based aid programs, as opposed to need-based aid programs. This study illuminates the distribution of Louisiana's merit-based financial aid program, Louisiana's Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS), to students from difference socioeconomic backgrounds by describing…
Descriptors: College Students, Tuition, Access to Education, Low Income Students
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Morgan, Anthony W. – Review of Higher Education, 1992
The use of selective, as contrasted with across-the-board, state funding as an incentive for program improvement in higher education institutions is discussed, and the experiences of four states (New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee) are examined for forces that work against the long-term feasibility of this approach. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Incentives, Models
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Pickens, William H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
Resources for higher education over the last 40 years are reviewed, with special emphasis on the abundance of the 1980s and crisis of the 1990s. Trends in government support are examined, and ways in which individual institutions can measure the adequacy of their resources to pursue their policy goals are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Change, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
August, Diane; And Others – 1995
The guide provides analysis and guidance on issues that arise in serving limited-English-proficient (LEP) students through Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act. It is intended for Title I coordinators at state and local levels and administrators of related programs serving LEP students. The guide presents the issues in the order in which…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agency Role, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
Thornton, Nelson L., Jr. – 1981
The total cost to Texas institutions of higher education of implementing and administering federally mandated social regulations are compared to the basic operating and financial characteristics of these institutions. A database of the basic characteristics of Texas, which includes student and faculty data as well as operating and financial data,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Expenditure per Student, Expenditures