This paper investigates whether the decision to attend university depends on university enrollment of close neighbors. I create a unique dataset combining detailed geographic information and educational records from different public agencies in Chile, and exploit the quasi-random variation generated by the rules that determine eligibility for…

The next decade may present continuous, dramatic and transformational change in higher education. New paradigms and educational delivery systems may become commonplace. New federal legislation may dictate admission practices, tuition increases, and mandates for standard retention and graduation rates. The ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of…

This study examines whether international enrollment can affect access for racial minority students in M.B.A. programs at public universities in the United States. Using data from "U.S. News & World Report," Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the U.S. Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period from the…

This paper presents new evidence on how enrollment expansion affects higher education access and production with a focus on social inequality and institutional stratification. From 1999 to 2012, the world's largest higher education expansion happened in China that annual college enrollment dramatically increased from 1,083,600 to 6,888,300. We…

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), including Computer Science (CS) are fields that are in great demand globally. This study's purpose was to explore the nature of the educational pathways, critical factors and commonalities/differences leading to CS undergraduate enrollment through the male and female perspectives focusing on…

Dr. William Serrata has been President of the El Paso County Community College (EPCC) District since 2012. Dr. Serrata serves as an advisory board member of the Higher Education Research and Development Institute (HERDI), and was recently appointed to the Executive Committee for Board of Directors for the American Association of Community Colleges…

Local education governance has allowed neighborhood schools to offer community-oriented curricula and activities, and public schools have been operated to serve only residents' children within the defined areas. The rise of neoliberalism may, however, undermine political foundations of the traditional political systems. This article explores how…

The latest edition highlights information about schools, enrollment and staffing patterns for Catholic elementary and secondary schools for the 2020-2021 school year. [For the 2019-2020 edition, see ED613136.]

The purpose of the study was to examine the perceptions of dual enrollment from high school administrators in urban, suburban, and rural districts in Georgia to discover what procedures or practices were utilized to promote positive experiences for dual enrolled students. Thirty-one respondents participated in the study from Georgia districts.…

In this study, it was investigated the intention of students to stay enrolled and student retention in undergraduate business management programs. The intention of students to stay enrolled and student retention are concerns for academic institutions. There is the need to direct resources to attract students and provide students with tools to…

As the number of international students increases globally, non-traditional destinations have emerged in the global higher education arena, despite the long-lasting dominance of traditional destinations, such as the United States, the UK, Australia, France, or Germany. In search of the causes of the change in the number of international students…

The 2019 Fall International Student Enrollment Snapshot Survey Report provides the international education field with a timely look at current patterns in international student enrollment as of fall 2019 (2019/20 academic year) based on the responses of more than 500 U.S. higher education institutions. The report is released jointly with and…

Calls for high levels of participation and success in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) by all Australians exacerbates the need for research into improving participation in mathematics by students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Rogoff's three planes of analysis is used to foreground the institutional plane in a low…

We propose a new method for estimating school-level characteristics from publicly available census data. We use a school's location to impute its catchment area by aggregating the nearest "n" census block groups such that the number of school-aged children in those "n" block groups is just over the number of students enrolled…

Pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) improves the school readiness of all children, but less is known about whether associations between enrollment in Pre-K and different indicators of social-emotional and executive functioning (EF) skills are sustained as children move into and across elementary school. The current study examines associations between…