Due to the escalating population and the resulting increase in energy use, the world is faced with the challenge of energy crisis. To mitigate the rise in energy crisis, innovation, adoption, and diffusion of energy efficient ...

A wide range of actors are taking notice that low-income students constitute less than 5 percent of the enrollment at the U.S most selective institutions, a percentage that, despite a great deal of effort and policy reform, ...

Low persistence and graduation rates, especially among low-income young adults and minorities, are ongoing problems that U.S. higher education faces. In spite of the need for education, the uneven distribution of alternatives ...

This paper discusses the findings of research which was conducted to identify the barriers to accessing and succeeding at tertiary study, as perceived by year 11 and 12 low income students from five Central Queensland ...

Do tuition vouchers and cash subsidies promote educational or labor force outcomes for “non-traditional” students? The author uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impacts of a state aid program with an ...

Internships for college students are widely promoted as a “high-impact” practice, yet the academic literature is limited by terminological imprecision, lack of data on intern demographics, and insufficient attention to the ...

The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and English ...

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 to ...

The UK offers a particularly interesting case for the study of higher education and its regulation. One key challenge has been the growing diversity across the different countries that form the UK, not just in terms of ...

The authors examine the effects of a comprehensive college transition program (CCTP) on four psychosocial outcomes associated with postsecondary success: sense of belonging, mattering, and academic and social self-efficacy. ...