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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"For-Profit Institutions"”.
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Do Factors Associated with Increases in Higher Education Costs Affect Average Net Price at Four-Year Public and Private Not-for-Profit Institutions?
… are questioning whether or not students can afford to attend. Factors such as instructional inefficiencies, administrative expenses, and federal financial aid have been associated with the rise in higher education costs at four-year public and four-year private not-for-profit institutions. In …
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New transfer partners : California community colleges and private for-profit four-year institutions
… experiences, and socioeconomic factors of California community college students who transfer to private for-profit four-year institutions with those who transfer to public or non-profit higher education institutions. Using logistic regression analysis, this study showed that academic …
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Those Who Quit: A Study of Student Retention At Two-Year Community and For-Profit Colleges
… student persistence at two-year community, and for-profit institutions. Much of the existing retention literature on post-secondary education has mostly centered around traditional four-year institutions, thus this study remedies the limitations with prior literature and provides insight into …
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A Multidimensional Leadership Model For Rural Community College Presidents
… insights much broader than the issue of leading institutions with decreased budgets and instead presented qualitative data that redirected the researcher to explore what dimensions of rural community college leadership emerge because of the "new reality" of higher education. The new reality …
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A study of student-veterans and academic engagement
… members are discharged from the military and are forced to make the decision of what to do with the rest of their lives. For an increasingly large percentage of such veterans, the decision that they will make will be to become full-time college students and pursue an education that will provide …
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Board of Trustees: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Individual Parts
… Regulatory pressures, dwindling resources, calls for improved student outcomes and academic quality, and competition from for-profit institutions speak to the need for high-performing community college boards. Boards must wield their power and goodwill to do everything possible to enhance their …
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The Perception of CEOs and CIOs in Regard to Planning and Information Systems Success in Higher Education in the Southeastern United States
<p>As information systems become an ever-increasing part of the educational infrastructure, their successful implementation and operation become paramount and strategic. It appears that information systems have not been utilized in a paramount or strategic fashion by education, especially in …
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Productivity and competition in health care markets
… ownership conversions. Theoretical work on not-for-profit institutions has hypothesized that not-for-profit firms exist as a response to high contracting costs in markets with asymmetric information. If a firm knows more than its customers about the quality of the goods or services it sells, …
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The Price of Prestige: A Study of the Impact of Striving Behavior on the Expenditure Patterns of American Colleges and Universities
… and encompassing public and private not-for-profit bachelors-granting schools to public and private research institutions. Further, by including 8 distinct lines of expenditures, the study was the first to provide such a comprehensive look at changes in institutional expenditures. The …
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Two Paths, One Goal: Student Success Examining Student Affairs in Community Colleges and For-Profit Post-Secondary Institutions
<p>In the 21<sup>st</sup> century, the potential for opportunities to obtain an education has become a reality and as a result, many students are embarking on a journey of social mobility and are assimilating into the milieu of higher learning. Affordability, accessibility, and program types are …