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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Student aid."”.
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Student aid and persistence in public community colleges
… a conceptual model for assessing the effects of student aid on community college student persistence. A sample consisting of all students who had entered a public community college during the 1980 fall term was drawn from the database of High School and Beyond, 1980 Senior Cohort. Omitting …
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Student aid and college attendance : analysis of government intervention in the higher education market
… Chapter J estimates the effect of grant aid on college attendance. I exploit the variation in aid created by the elimination of the Social Security Student Benefit Program, which at its peak provided grants totaling $3.3 billion a year to one out of ten college students. I find that $ I …
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Essays in State Funding for Higher Education
… higher education on the price of education and student enrollment at institutions. The first paper evaluates the effectiveness of student aid in decreasing the price of higher education by investigating what portion of student aid dollars reach targeted students and what portion are absorbed by …
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Legislative Intent, Program Implementation, and Higher Education Policy: The Case of Title Iii of The 1965 Higher Education Act
… opportunity in higher education. In addition to student aid, direct institutional aid was viewed as an appropriate vehicle for the pursuit of equal educational opportunity. Title III of the HEA, The Developing Institutions Program, played a dual role in maintaining access to higher education for …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… estimates the economic incidence of need-based student aid, one tool intended to ameliorate credit constraints in the market for higher education. The second chapter examines whether government programs providing support to low-income families should explicitly support or deny access to higher …
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More than Money Matters: An Integrated Model of Graduate Student Persistence
Graduate student persistence rarely has been studied, yet it is a very important issue for many higher education constituents—including senior administrators, academic deans, faculty members, students, and families. In light of an alarming statistic that approximately 50% of all graduate students …
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The politics of college affordability : a multiple streams analysis of financial aid policymaking in Texas
… of how politics in Texas shapes state financial aid policymaking. I analyzed three bills considered by the Texas Legislature between 2011 and 2015, each affecting a different type of student aid: a need-based grant, forgivable loan, and tuition exemption. The bills that comprise my cases each …
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Exploring Parental Actions to Finance Higher Education
… analyzed from the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS: 96). Results of this study indicated that gender, race, housing status, and attendance status of students were factors in the amount of loans that was assumed by parents. Further results indicated that parent'9s marital …
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Initiating a Bystander Awareness Program at a State University
… requires that colleges participating in federal student aid programs must provide “primary prevention and awareness programs” for new students and employees, as well as ongoing crime prevention and awareness campaigns. Implementation was mandated to be started by October 1, 2014. Most prevention …
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Nontraditional Student Risk Factors and Gender as Predictors for Enrollment in College Distance Education
… was to examine whether nontraditional student age, female gender, and the possession of nontraditional student risk factors predict enrollment in distance education college courses. This dissertation used data from the most recent National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12), …
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Roommate Compatibility and Group Cohesiveness as Influenced by the Amount and Types of Awarded Financial Aid
Problem. In what way is the compatibility between students assigned as roommates on the basis of the amount and types of awarded financial aid packages similar and dissimilar to the compatibility between students assigned as roommates through the traditional freshmen procedure utilized at Drake …
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The proprietary school sector: a demographic and financial aid profile
… several questions concerning distribution of student financial aid in the proprietary school sector. The study was conducted in the Spring of 1989 using a Fall, 1986, nationally representative sample of 3,837 students attending less than two-year and two-year proprietary schools in the 50 …
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The Behaviors and Attitudes of Financial Aid and Admission Directors Regarding the Growing Use of Financial Aid Funds for Marketing Purposes
… personnel are increasingly utilizing financial aid in their marketing strategies. As pressure to efficiently allocate limited financial aid funds at colleges and universities has grown, increased use of financial aid in enrollment management strategies has followed. Allocating an institution's …
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Financing Adulthood: The Risks And Hopes Of Parent Borrowing Through The Parent Loans For Undergraduate Students (plus) Program
… federally-funded Parent Loans for Undergraduate Student (PLUS) program to illustrate the risks and hope current higher education policies demand of families across the income distribution who are working to provide a middle-class life for their children. To do so, this research uses three …
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Financial aid and the college enrollment decision: a causal model
… a model of the factors affecting high school students' first time entry into different types of postsecondary institutions. To test the model, a sample (N = 5395) of high school students was drawn from the sophomore cohort of High School and Beyond data. These students were enrolled in …
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Factors that influence traditional-age, high-achieving students to enroll at a research-extensive university in the Southern region of the United States
… Since World War II, the need for students to obtain an outstanding postsecondary education in order to compete for the best positions in today's job market has become increasingly important. Thus, the need exists for higher education institutions to offer competitive academic …
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Student Perceptions and Use of Electronic Financial Aid Service Delivery
<p>Few argue the premise that financial aid is one of the most vital services offered to college students. Over fifty percent of today's college tuition is actually paid by some form of student aid, whether it is from federal, state, private, or institutional resources. The public perception of the …
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Student financial aid: comparison by sector
… was threefold: (a) to determine the amount of student financial aid received by undergraduate students in targeted groups to see who benefits, (b) to identify a limited number of variables that account for a significant portion of differences in aid distribution, and (c) to examine alternative …
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State aid to private higher education in North Carolina: a historical description
… except Wyoming and Nevada provide some type of aid to private higher education institutions. One state, North Carolina, began its efforts to provide state assistance to private higher education in 1971 and by 1981 had provided approximately 86 million dollars to its now 38 private colleges and …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
In the first chapter, I measure the impact of student loan debt on young, college-educated workers' decisions regarding labor supply and enrollment in graduate school. I exploit variation in student loan debt driven by the formulas that determine Federal Student Aid in order to identify these …
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