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Unauthorized Alien Students, Higher Education, and In-State Tuition Rates: A Legal Analysis
(2010-09-21)
Currently, federal law prohibits states from granting unauthorized aliens certain postsecondary educational benefits on the basis of state residence, unless equal benefits are made available to all U.S. citizens. This ...
Experiences and Expectations of International Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Education Sciences, 2019-07-01)
International students are the most important population in the American higher education system, particularly for students from different cultural backgrounds. Besides research-based universities, comprehensive universities, ...
Washington’s College Bound Scholarship Program and its Effect on College Entry, Persistence, and Completion
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-09-01)
Indiana, Oklahoma, and Washington have programs designed to address college enrollment and completion gaps by offering a promise of state-based college financial aid to low-income middle school students in exchange for ...
New Research Perspectives on Native American Students in Higher Education
(Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2019-05-24)
This chapter begins with a brief history of higher education’s role in assimilation, oppression, and removal of Indigenous people. A short literature review outlines the progression of higher education literature from ...
Undocumented Students from Mexico and State Policy Variation of Post-Secondary Education: Social and Economic Factors Affecting State Politics
(University of Miami, Scholarly Repository, 2018-03-14)
The goal of this study is to establish a greater understanding regarding variations of higher education policy implementation for undocumented students among the states in the United States. This thesis seeks to analyze ...
Online Learning: Does It Help Low-Income and Underprepared Students? (Assessment of Evidence Series)
(Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2011-01-01)
Online learning has generated enthusiasm for its potential to promote greater access to college by reducing the cost and time of commuting and by allowing students to study on a schedule that is optimal for them. The article ...
Loans for Educational Opportunity: Making Borrowing Work for Today’s Students
(The Hamilton Project, 2013-10-01)
In this article the authors propose a better model of loan repayment. A single, simple, income-based repayment system called Loans for Educational Opportunity (LEO) will replace the current, bewildering array of repayment ...
The Earnings of Community College Graduates in California
(Community College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia University, 2016-12-01)
In this study, the author draws on longitudinal data for 1.1 million students in California to estimate the effects of community college credentials on students’ earnings, as compared with students who are not awarded a ...
The Case for a New College Governance Structure in Nevada: Integrating Higher Education with Economic Development
(Lincy Institute, 2014)
As Katz and Bradley (2013) document, the confluence of partisan politics and budget cuts have left the federal government and to a lesser extent, state governments impotent to address the countless economic and education ...
College Advising at a National Scale: Experimental Evidence from the CollegePoint initiative
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-09-01)
In recognition of the complexity of the college and financial aid application process, and in response to insufficient access to family or school-based counseling among economically-disadvantaged populations, investments ...