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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"student debt"”.
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Building a Model to Test the Relationship Between Higher Education Spending and Student Debt
… fees is no doubt a major contributor to rising student debt but it is certainly not the only factor. The amount of debt with which students may graduate can largely be a function of the type of institution they attend (Monks, 2014). There is a dearth of research that focuses on the institutional …
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Social Connectedness and Student Debt: Predicting College Retention at a Four-Year Private Liberal Arts Institution
Of all the students entering a four-year institution of higher education, only 52.8% graduate within five years (Noble & Sawyer, 2013). Over the years, American higher education has made little progress toward improving the graduation rate and ensuring students entering college will be successful. …
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Social Connectedness and Student Debt: Predicting College Retention at a Four-Year Private Liberal Arts Institution
Of all the students entering a four-year institution of higher education, only 52.8% graduate within five years (Noble & Sawyer, 2013). Over the years, American higher education has made little progress toward improving the graduation rate and ensuring students entering college will be successful. …
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Becoming the Best Mom or the Best Doctor? Gender Inequality and Medical Students’ Specialty Choice
… shortage of primary care physicians, 24 medical students from the East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine were selected through a snowball sample and participated in in-depth interviews. A major aim of the study was to explore the social and economic factors influencing …
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Essays in Household Finance and Education Finance
… affects children's college attendance and student debt using novel data on 529 college savings accounts linked with student-level longitudinal data. Employing exogenous variation in the portfolio allocation of 529 accounts driven by institutional details in the asset management sector, the …
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The Design Plan for a Comprehensive Financial Literacy Program
… literacy tools are available to college students. Students of today face higher tuition and education-related costs, are less likely to receive grant funding to assist with their educational expenses, and are more likely to be in debt, carrying higher student debt loads than previous …
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"As they trickle in, they trickle out" : recruiting physicians in rural Ontario
… and educational. Eleven physicians and medical students were interviewed regarding the basis for their decisions to practice in rural areas. Their responses were compared to the major issues regarding recruitment found in the research literature. From a financial point of view, respondents …
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Asymmetrical Information Market Failure Triggered by the Chicago School's Profit Motive Paradigm: A Case Study of Virginia's Public Higher Education Market and Media Identification of Public Value Failure
… institution which subsequently aid in increased student debt and reduced access and affordability for low income classification groups thus exacerbating societal cleavages identified as public values failures. This research identifies the application of economic and public administration theory …
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The Economics of American Higher Education
… such as changing delivery models, rising student debt, lower government funding, growing economic inequality and job readiness concerns are all potential obstacles to a college degree, which continues to command a wage premium in the job market. Using a literature review methodology to …
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Performance funding 2.0 in higher education
As tuition and student debt at public institutions of higher education have grown substantially over the last decade, state governments have looked increasingly to performance funding programs to incentivize the efficient delivery of higher education, particularly by decreasing time-to-degree. Even …
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The Relationship Between Financial Incentives and Perceptions of Student Choice at Private Michigan Universities
… a college or university degree gives millions of students “sticker shock” each year, and paying off student debt has only grown more difficult over time (Liberto, 2012). The College Board, a nonprofit group that runs the SAT exam, indicates that over the past decade, the average annual tuition for …
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A Clinical Leader’s Influence in Physical Therapy Education: A Case Study
… to unconstrained academic growth, surmounting student debt, unbalanced supply and demand of the workforce, declining reimbursement, and health inequities. The profession has questioned whether PT education is developing practitioners ready to meet the complex healthcare needs of society. PT …
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An investigation into defaulted student accounts receivable at the University of Namibia
… fundamental financial problems, such as student debt, faced by institutions of higher education are experienced worldwide. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the defaulted student account receivables at the University of Namibia (UNAM). Furthermore, the reasons …
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Tuition Reductions: A Quantitative Analysis of the Prevalence, Circumstances and Outcomes of an Emerging Pricing Strategy in Higher Education
… reducers tended to 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 …
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Esports implementation in higher education: a quantitative analysis
… new environment where there are fewer potential students to recruit. Institutional Theory, specifically Loose Coupling, provides a way to examine how institutions change and what factors currently have a relationship with eSports implementation. This study investigates whether the Carnegie …
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College Enrollment, Graduation, and Financing: The Role of Parental Income and Wealth
… parental financing affects the subsequent indebtedness of parents and children. The results show that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend college with financial support relative to not attending college, and that parental wealth increases …
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Considerations Of A Tuition Reset At Small, Non-Selective Liberal Arts Colleges
… in a cycle of deepening discount rates to ensure student enrollments while raising tuition rates to earn more funds from students paying the full cost. However, continually discounting tuitions to attract students can lead to a point of diminishing returns, at which the college is no longer able …
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Happiness, debt & depression Is there a relationship between debt and depression in South Africa?
… likelihood of depression, the role of personal debt in determining individual mental health is not fully understood. This paper investigates the existence of a causal relationship between individual debt and depression across 5 waves of panel data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). …
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Career choices for foreign-educated dentists
… as a lighter financial burden caused by smaller student debt and the irrelevance of military practice experience. The study provides a number of suggestions for enhancing the recruiting and retaining process for dental academia: (1) Support and enhance the research capacity of dental schools; (2) …
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The loan game. Harnessing big data to compare naturalistic mental health expressions on student loan debts
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01