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The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence From Three Decades of Default Cycles
(The Brookings Institution, 2019-07-02)
This paper studies the link between credit availability and student loan repayment using administrative federal student loan data. The authors demonstrate that expansions and contractions in federal student loan credit ...
The “Traditional” College Student: A Smaller and Smaller Minority and Its Implications for Diversity and Access Institutions
(Stanford CEPA, 2011-11-01)
What happens when a norm of behavior becomes the exception numerically, yet the social construction of that norm remains prominent? When such a situation occurs, those who do not conform to that norm tend to be marginalized ...
Subjectivity Making in Undocumented Immigrant Student Organizing
(University of California, Los Angeles, 2016)
This report explores the ways in which the deserving/undeserving immigrant binary politically targets subject for incorporation into a national neoliberal project, while excluding others. Simultaneously, the author also ...
Innovate and Evaluate: Expanding the Research Base for Competency-Based Education
(American Enterprise Institute, 2016-06-01)
Higher education is under increasing pressure to change. The combination of soaring costs, stagnant completion rates, and an uncertain labor market for recent college graduates has given rise to a sustained push for ...
Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and "DREAM Act" Legislation
(2010-12-01)
Unauthorized aliens in the United States are able to receive free public education through high school. They may experience difficulty obtaining higher education, however, for several reasons. Among these reasons is a ...
Women and Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges and Expanding Opportunity
(2014-11-01)
As President Obama noted, women of color “struggle every day with biases that perpetuate oppressive standards for how they’re supposed to look and how they’re supposed to act. Too often, they’re either left under the hard ...
Sexual Violence at Institutions of Higher Education
(2016-04-01)
Recent high-profile incidents of sexual violence on campus have heightened congressional and administrative scrutiny of the policies and procedures that institutions of higher education (IHEs) use to address such violence. ...
Interest Convergence and the Commodification of International Students and Scholars in the United States
(Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2019-05-24)
International students and scholars in the United States (U.S.) have often been excluded from conversations about race, ethnicity, and migration within U.S. contexts. However, with the issuance of what is commonly known ...
The Role of Intergovernmental Relations in K-12 to Higher Education Transitions
(Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA), 2011)
The majority of American students who successfully complete high school today reach graduation without satisfying even the minimal qualifications for admission to a four-year college or university (Green and Forster, 2003). ...
Undocumented Students’ Experiences With Microaggressions During Their College Choice Process
(Teachers College, Columbia University, 2016)
Although millions of undocumented students are enrolled in and guaranteed free public K–12 education, their postsecondary education opportunities are stifled. Some of the barriers encountered by undocumented students include ...