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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Financial Need"”.
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The Impact of Financial Aid on Enrollment and Completion at a Large Public University
Background: Students have increasingly utilized financial aid as the rising cost of college in recent decades has far outpaced increases in family income. However, equity gaps still exist: students with financial need and Black and Hispanic students are less likely to both enroll in and complete …
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The Impact of Financial Aid on Enrollment and Completion at a Large Public University
Background: Students have increasingly utilized financial aid as the rising cost of college in recent decades has far outpaced increases in family income. However, equity gaps still exist: students with financial need and Black and Hispanic students are less likely to both enroll in and complete …
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A description of four state competitive scholarship programs of states which have membership in the Mid-West Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
… directors and the eight college student financial aid directors.The review of related literature consisted of three parts: (1) the significance of the state scholarship programs, (2) the National Association of State Scholarship Programs, (3) federal student financial aid programs.The …
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Predictors of Health Promoting Lifestyles in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… gender, age, basic metabolic index (BMI), financial need, race, ethnicity, relationship status, living situation, general health status, self-reported depressive symptoms, social support, academic outcomes, self-efficacy, and heath promoting lifestyles. A convenience sample of participants …
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International Students' Confidence And Academic Success
… language barriers, academic ability, and financial need. There is compelling evidence that establishes a correlation between a person's self-efficacy and his or her level of achievement. This study used quantitative analysis to determine if there is an association between international …
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A theory and outcome evaluation of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation's (AGOF's) scholarship programme
… of 11 to 12 years of age, who demonstrate financial need and attain a minimum score of 70% in English and Mathematics and are from poor family backgrounds to attend secondary school. The programme provides financial support, coaching, and extracurricular activities (a development camp, …
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An Examination of Factors Influencing Persistence at Columbus State University
… pre-college academic and social experiences, financial need as well as health challenges and disability. The findings were congruent with studies examining student-instituion fit inclusive of the changing demographics among college students. Additionally, the relationship between why incoming …
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Tuition Reductions: A Quantitative Analysis of the Prevalence, Circumstances and Outcomes of an Emerging Pricing Strategy in Higher Education
… serve higher proportions of students with high financial need, to have smaller endowments, and were more likely to be religiously affiliated. The study found that the operational outcomes of tuition reducing institutions in the year of the tuition reduction tended to be positive for students …
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Social support during adjustment to later-life divorce: how adult children help parents
… areas: instrumental aid (e.g., advice, services, financial assistance) and socioemotional aid. The pattern of support varied according to sex of the parent and the sex of the child. Mothers received significantly more support than fathers in all four categories: advice, services, financial …
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Predicting Academic Success among First-Year, First Generation Students
… there is a relationship between race, gender, financial need, and language ability and factors used to predict the academic success of first generation students. Factors were defined as variables measured by the 2002 Your First College Year Survey (YFCY) data (HERI, 2004a). Factors fell into …
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The Effects of Partner Aggression on Women's Work
… support, coworker support, mental respite, financial need, and partner interference in employment) of the relationship between partner aggression and work withdrawal. In the first study, full-time, post secondary female students in dating relationships (N = 122) reported on psychological …
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Student politics and the funding of higher education in South Africa: the case of the University of the Western Cape, 1995-2005
… addressed the resulting problem of ‘unmet financial need’. My case study is set within the broader context of the momentous political and social change in South Africa’s first decade of democracy and the transformation of higher education in that country between 1995 and 2005. I reconsider …
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Education in Transition: Church and State Relationships in Utah Education, 1888-1933
… Such growing, however, brought increased financial need. Faced with rising costs and budgetary restraints caused by periods of economic depression, the LDS Church rethought its educational policy. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Church restructured its educational system, turning over to …
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Older indigent women’s economic crimes: Subsuming feminism in favour of a human rights explanation
… significant finding in this research is that financial need rather than greed was a precursor to older women’s involvement in acquisitive crimes. Having primary custody of children after divorce and relying on welfare support were factors contributing to their impoverished status. The …
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Financing hope: the impact of state and institutional financial aid on undocumented student persistence and success in Texas
This study examined how financial aid impacts undocumented college students in Texas by evaluating their (1) year-to-year persistence and (2) degree attainment within six years. Texas is one of five states that provide its undocumented residents both in-state tuition and financial aid. Its policy …
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Alumni Characteristics that Predict Promoting and Donating to Alma Mater: Implications for Alumni Relations
… promoting the institution to ethers and donating financial resources.</p> <p>Using logistic regression to first predict whether or not alumni would donate, 71.41 % were correctly classified as donors or non-donors. Further analysis by stepwise linear regression provided predictive models for …
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A Study of General Education Assessment.
… study include race, age, gender, evidence of financial need, zip code of permanent residence, type of degree earned, ACT composite score, placement test requirement, undergraduate grade point average, general education credit hours, grades earned in general education courses, evidence of …
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The Efficacy And Limits Of The Collegiate Men Of Distinction Mentoring Program
… correlates or shows causal relationships among a financial need, household makeup, and first-generation status as it pertains to the academic success and graduation of Black men; and conducting a multi-site study to compare and contrast peer-led mentoring programs at different colleges and …
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Judgments of administrators and teachers regarding the effectiveness of planned program budgeting systems (PPBS) in selected school districts in New Jersey
… Fifty questions divided into five categories, needs assessment, consideration of alternative programs, determination of financial need for preferred alternatives evaluation of performance in each program, and process, were developed. Two field tests were conducted.Data were treated in two ways. …
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Mapping the funding landscape for biodiversity conservation in Peru
Financial resources are crucial to effective biodiversity conservation. Globally, research shows that conservation-related expenditures are directed towards countries of high biodiversity importance, even as funding flows are well below estimates of financial need. The absence of sufficient funding …
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