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Asian American And Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions: Areas Of Growth, Innovation, And Collaboration
(National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE), 2012)
Our system of higher education must realize a fundamentally different approach to teaching and learning because of our nation’s rapidly changing demography. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders represent the fastest growing ...
Financing Public Higher Education: Variation across States
(Urban Institute, 2015-11-01)
In this report, the authors examine patterns of public college pricing, funding, and enrollment across the nation, as well as instructional expenditures and student grant aids. Because most students remain in state to take ...
The Federal-State Higher Education Partnership How States Manage Their Roles
(Urban Institute, 2017-05-16)
State funding of public higher education is central to college access and affordability and to postsecondary educational attainment. State support translates into resources colleges and universities can spend on instruction ...
Community College Students and Grant Aid: Bringing Equity to the Provision of Grant Aid by States and Institutions
(Demos, 2011-01-20)
In order to reverse the troubling low graduation rates at our nation’s community colleges, low-income students must stop being financially penalized for attending these institutions. As this brief outlines, low-income ...
Statistics on Undergraduate Single Parents in Postsecondary education
(American Council on Education, 2014)
In the 2011–2012 academic year, U.S. colleges and universities enrolled 3.5 million students who are also single parents, a group that represents 15.2 percent of the undergraduate population. This growing demographic group ...
Five Facts About the Proposed Student Loan Repayment System
(Center for American Progress, 2018-04-10)
Student loan borrowers may be in for a big surprise in 2019. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) is proposing big changes to the system that allows more than 37 million borrowers to repay ...
Doing Away With Debt
(The Education Trust West, 2013-02-01)
America’s financial-aid system has become almost impossible to navigate and burdensome for those who need it most. Tuition and fees rise unabated, forcing almost half of college going students to borrow. Low and middle-income ...
The Real Price of College. College Completion Series: Part Two
(The Century Foundation, 2016-03-03)
The high price of college is the subject of media headlines, policy debates, and dinner table conversations because of its implications for educational opportunities, student and family pocketbooks, and the economy. Financial ...
A Service Science Perspective on Higher Education Linking Service Productivity Theory and Higher Education Reform
(Center for American Progress, 2012-08-01)
Policymakers are currently wrestling with fundamental but complex questions about the future of higher education, including how to hold colleges responsible for the billions of dollars in federal financial aid money they ...
The California Dream and its Future: Indicators of Educational and Economic Opportunity in the Golden State
(EdFund, 2001-09-01)
This report is an in depth analysis of economic and educational indicators in the nation's largest state. The report concludes that low-income students are bearing a larger burden in paying for college than middle- and ...