New Jersey has demonstrated a strong commitment to helping students pay for college, as evidenced by the continued focus on grant aid through the Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) and Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) programs. ...

In today’s knowledge-based economy, a college degree is a necessary qualification for entry to the middle class. In response to this economic reality, more young people than ever before are going to college. This report ...

This report examines the need for alternative education among vulnerable youth and describes the numbers and characteristics of youth who disconnect from mainstream developmental pathways. It also examines the question ...

The Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan conducted a national survey of U.S. institutions of higher education in 2002, examining the prevalence of family-friendly policies offered to higher ...

States have a powerful incentive to plug the leaks in the education pipeline. To be competitive and create the conditions for strong economic growth, states need to help all their residents increase their skills and be ...

This report focuses on the progress that the Maryland’s public colleges and universities have made in three areas: 1) strengthening recruitment, 2) strengthening retention and graduation, and 3) improving diversity of ...

The present manual makes the case for inclusion of a student services/student affairs presence in higher education institutions and how that effort is directly related to the World Declaration on Higher Education. First, ...

In 2005, the Economic Self-Reliance Center (ESR Center) at Brigham Young University partnered with the Single Mom Foundation of Salt Lake City, Utah, to create the Single Mom Initiative, a multi-year, multi-disciplinary ...

This report presents a statistical overview of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) from 1976 to 2001. HBCUs are institutions established prior to 1964, whose principal mission is the education of Black ...

In this paper, the authors examine grant-aid programs in 11 states in varying degrees of detail. The authors demonstrate how different policy goals and objectives have led to different approaches to financial aid, with ...