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Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2024
The 2024 Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report is the 18th annual progress report designed to provide the Nebraska Legislature with comparative statistics to monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving three key priorities for Nebraska's postsecondary education system. These priorities were developed by the 2003 LR 174 Higher Education Task…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Government, School Statistics, Enrollment
Oded Gurantz; Ryan Sakoda; Shayak Sarkar – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
This paper examines how financial aid reform based on postsecondary institutional performance impacts student choice. Federal and state regulations often reflect concerns about the private, for-profit sector's poor employment outcomes and high loan defaults, despite the sector's possible theoretical advantages. We use student level data to examine…
Descriptors: State Aid, College Attendance, Student Financial Aid, Institutional Characteristics
Page, Lindsay C.; Lowry, Danielle; Nurshatayeva, Aizat – National College Access Network, 2017
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an important application that prospective college students must complete to qualify for state and federal financial aid. In this report, the authors describe how school district FAFSA completion rates are related to district-level poverty rates across and within states. Given that students…
Descriptors: School Districts, Poverty, Financial Aid Applicants, Student Financial Aid
Hoover, Calla – Utah System of Higher Education, 2022
Federal financial aid was established under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Since then, changes to the act have increased funding and expanded eligibility for students accessing federal financial aid. While the distribution of federal financial aid has expanded over the last 60 years, untapped financial resources remain every year because…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Bahr, Steven; Sparks, Dianah; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an important tool to help students find financial assistance. Not only do students fill out the FAFSA to apply for federal aid for post-secondary education, but also to be considered for aid by states, institutions, and private funders. Thus, filling out the FAFSA, specifically, and applying…
Descriptors: College Students, College Applicants, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Linkow, Tamara; Parsad, Amanda; Martinez, Alina; Miller, Hannah – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
This appendix is a companion to the "Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Where and How Long Students Attend College" (ED615732) report. The appendix provides additional information about the "Find the Fit" enhanced advising strategies and the study that assessed its effectiveness when implemented…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, High School Seniors, Federal Programs, Access to Education
Durham, Rachel E.; Smith, Zyrashae; Cronister, Curt – Baltimore Education Research Consortium, 2020
This report is a compendium of college access-related data that is intended to provide a detailed overview of Baltimore City Schools (City Schools) students' experiences preparing for, enrolling in, and completing postsecondary education. Although constrained in its scope, this report is offered in light of the fact that, more and more,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, College Readiness, Postsecondary Education, College Attendance
Kwakye, Isaac; Kibort-Crocker, Emma; Pasion, Sarah – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2020
Equity gaps in our society have existed and persisted over time. Recent events have further emphasized racial injustices in society. The disproportionate health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on people of color have exacerbated existing inequities, leading to renewed calls for social justice. The COVID-19 crisis is also shedding light…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Postsecondary Education, Labor Market
Epps, Sylvia R.; Jackson, Russell H.; Olsen, Robert B.; Shivji, Azim; Roy, Radha – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2016
Launched in 1965, Upward Bound (UB) is one of the oldest and largest of the federal college access programs targeted to low-income students and those who would represent the first-generation of college completers in their families. Currently, UB serves more than 60,000 high school students at a cost of about $4,300 per youth and offers an array of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Access to Education, Higher Education, Low Income Students
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2018
The perception of college affordability and financing is a grim one, fueled by the very real rising costs of higher education, as well as media coverage of how much students and their families are borrowing. While this perception is understandable given the realities of paying for college, how do students and parents feel about the process of…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Costs, Higher Education, High School Seniors
Cooper-Martin, Elizabeth; Wolanin, Natalie – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2016
The Office of Shared Accountability in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is conducting a multiyear evaluation of the Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES) program. The ACES program is a collaboration between MCPS, Montgomery College (MC) and the Universities at Shady Grove to create a seamless pathway from high school to college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Counties, Academic Achievement
Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2012
The FAFSA application can be completed by aspiring students to access federal financial aid for college enrollment. FAFSA completion rates for AISD seniors were the same in 2011 and 2012, and gaps in FAFSA completion remained among student groups.
Descriptors: Reputation, Student Financial Aid, Costs, Educational Finance
Wolanin, Natalie; Modarresi, Shahpar – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2015
The Office of Shared Accountability in Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) is conducting a multiyear evaluation of the "Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success" (ACES) program. ACES is a collaboration between MCPS, Montgomery College (MC), and the Universities at Shady Grove (USG) to create a seamless pathway from high…
Descriptors: Counties, Public Schools, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Neal, Micki; Stelling, Laura; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2014
Since 2003, Austin Independent School District's (AISD) postsecondary enrollment has increased incrementally. Over the years, the percentages of students enrolling in 2-year institutions appear to account for the overall increase in postsecondary enrollment. After the upward tick in postsecondary enrollment for the Class of 2011, enrollment…
Descriptors: School Districts, Enrollment Trends, College Attendance, Trend Analysis
Estrada, Rebecca – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2011
The 2011 Application Trends Survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is the industry source for comprehensive statistics and timely and reliable insights into the demand for graduate management education around the world. A total of 649 programs from 331 business schools and faculties worldwide representing 45 countries…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Student Recruitment, Class Size, Doctoral Programs