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Impact Evaluation of the Mozambique Rural Water Supply Activity
(Virginia Tech. School of Public and International Affairs; Stanford University, 2014-08)
In 2007, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a $506.9 million compact designed to reduce poverty in Mozambique by promoting sustainable economic growth. Among the planned investments was the installation of ...
Good Policy, Good Practice. Improving Outcomes and Productivity in Higher Education: A Guide for Policymakers (Part I)
(National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), 2007-11-01)
This report describes a wide range of successful strategies from which states can draw to increase the educational attainment of their residents while holding down higher education costs. Part I offers examples of strategies, ...
Digest of Education Statistics 2018
(U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics; American Institutes for Research, 2019-12-01)
The report provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school up to date 2018.
Fast Facts Report for the Student Support Services Program
(U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, 2016)
The Student Support Services (SSS) program—one of the federal TRIO programs—was authorized in 1968 by the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a), as amended. The goal of SSS is to increase the postsecondary persistence ...
2019 College Senior Survey
(Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, 2020-02-01)
The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) has administered the College Senior Survey since 1993; this year marked the 27th administration of the survey. This report highlights data from 17,363 seniors graduating ...
The Changing U.S. Workforce: The Growing Hispanic Demographic and the Workplace
(Society for Human Resource Management; Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, 2016-09-01)
This report provides the latest research and high-level insights from experts on the challenges and opportunities presented by the massive influx of Hispanics into the workforce to ensure that this new generation of employees ...
Priced Out: A Closer Look at Postsecondary Affordability for Latinos
(Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, 2012-08-16)
A key barrier to college access and completion for Latinos is financial. Latino families experience the college affordability landscape in dramatically different ways than White and Asian families, whose needs may well be ...
Documenting Implementation Realities: Undocumented Immigrant Students in California and North Carolina
(National Association for College Admission Counseling, 2010)
Shortly before September 2001, comprehensive national immigration reform seemed to be making its way to the top of the US policy agenda (flores and Chapa 2009; Waslin 2009). While sentiments around immigration in a ...
Policy Brief: Ending DACA Would Limit Access to Higher Education in Ten States
(Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration; Ulead Network, 2020-06-29)
On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote to maintain DACA in place. The Court found that the Trump administration’s rationale for ending DACA in 2017 was “arbitrary and capricious.” The Court also found ...
Profile of Very Low And Low-Income Undergraduates in 2015–16
(U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, 2019-10-01)
The primary objectives behind postsecondary financial aid programs are to increase access, improve affordability, and promote equal opportunity and college success for postsecondary students (Gillen 2010). Low-income ...