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Making the Nation's Investment in Student Access and Success Part II: Reorienting the HEA Reauthorization to Reflect What Research-Based Knowledge Says about What Works
(2004-04-26)In this two-part study, the authors asked 203 of the nation's most active higher education researchers and policy analysts to respond to86 current ideas for expanding and increasing student success.According to the ... -
Making the Nation's Investment in Student Access and Success Part I: Refocusing the HEA Reauthorization to Reflect the Priorities of Higher Education Policy Analysts and Researchers
(2004-04-26)In this two-part study, the authors asked 203 of the nation's most active higher education researchers and policy analysts to respond to 86 current ideas for expanding and increasing student success. According to the ... -
Institutional Support for Advancing Undergraduate Service-Learning: A Case Example from a Large Public Research-Intensive University
(2007-02-26)Colleges and universities across the country are encouraging the integration of service-learning and community-based research into the curriculum, often by establishing centers to assist in that process. The goal of this ... -
A Simple Unifying Measure of State Support for Higher Education
(2007-04)Conflicting measures of state support for higher education create confusion and misunderstanding that convolute debates about states' postsecondary education funding. The use of multiple measures is largely unnecessary, ... -
The Wisconsin Covenant: Toward a Truly Merit-Based System of Higher Education
(2007-05-09)Governor Doyle recently proposed the Wisconsin Covenant to make college more accessible to low-income residents. This policy brief explains why this is an important goal and how the proposal should be designed to best ... -
Global Assemblage: Singapore, Foreign Universities, and the Construction of a "Global Education Hub"
(2007-05-18)In the late 1990s and early 2000s select cities in Pacific Asia formed or significantly deepened formal institutional linkages with a variety of foreign (mainly Western) universities. The objective of this paper is to ... -
A Learning Community Model of Graduate Student Professional Development for Teaching Excellence
(2007-05-30)A learning community model is presented as a successful approach to teaching-related professional development for research-active future faculty. Four core elements of learning communities are identified: shared discovery ... -
The Impact of New College Graduates on Intrastate Labor Markets
(2007-07)A crucial issue in the debate on state support for higher education is the extent that a state?s production of college graduates affects the state?s education attainment. The view that many new graduates take their ... -
The Impact of Cost-Containment Proposals Associated with the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act
(2007-07-16)Various legislative bills associated with the reauthorization of the federal Higher Education Act have included provisions that target colleges and universities that persistently increase tuition at rates beyond a set ... -
Declines in Spending on Higher Education in Wisconsin: An Analysis of the University of Wisconsin System Budget
(2007-07-19)Though a significant portion of the UW System?s budget comes from the state?paralleling the pattern found in other states?in recent years, the UW System has received a relatively smaller percentage of its funding from the ... -
The Fiscal Impacts of College Attainment
(2007-11)This study quantifies the fiscal benefits associated with greater college attainment, one important part of the economic return to public investment in college education. College graduates generally pay much more in taxes ... -
Determinants of State Appropriations for Higher Education from 1985-2005: An Organizational Theory Analysis
(2008-02)This study employs time series methodology to identify factors that best explain variations in state appropriations for higher education since 1985. Relying on an organizational theory framework, state and institutional ... -
Hard Times in America's Laboratory for Democracy: Wisconsin Legislative Politics 1966 and 2006
(2008-02-12)This report analyzes roll-call votes and legislators? background characteristics to identify and assess recent changes in the behavior of the Wisconsin Legislature. In doing so, it develops an indicator of legislative ... -
Addressing Opportunity in Wisconsin's Four-Year Universities: A Comparative Analysis of State College Access Programs
(2009-01-21)This brief explores three examples of state policies designed to help students and families cope with rising tuition costs at four-year institutions: the Wisconsin Covenant, the Georgia HOPE Scholarship Program, and the ... -
The 2008 Amendments to the Federal Higher Education Act: Are We on the Right Track?
(2009-03-09)This policy brief summarizes the Higher Education Amendments of 2008 (HEA 2008) and the evolution of the Higher Education Act since 1965, particularly the evolution of federal and non-federal forms of financial assistance ... -
Beyond Access: Explaining Socioeconomic Differences in College Transfer
(2009-06)The authors find that college students from less educated families are more likely to transfer from four-year schools to community colleges partly because of lower levels of academic performance during freshman year. -
Institutional Transfer and the Management of Risk in Higher Education
(2009-08)This study explores the circumstances, behaviors, and understandings that lie at the root of student decisions to reverse transfer (transfer from a four-year institution to a two-year institution). In particular, the authors ... -
Postsecondary Opportunity Programs: Defining and Improving an Educational Policy Innovation
(2009-09-29)For a variety of reasons, higher education applications, enrollments, and graduation rates are falling short of desired levels, and this deficit impairs economic and community viability. In response, concerned stakeholders ... -
The 'Bottom' Seventy Percent: What America's Elite Institutions of Higher Learning Owe to Everyone Else
(2009-10-13)Students who have the greatest educational need?low-income, part-time, first-generation, working parents, immigrants, and people of color?are systematically funneled into institutions with the fewest resources. In response, ... -
Aligning Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Lesson from the Past
(2009-11-04)Educators, reformers, and commissions have long underscored the need to align all levels of education and build a seamless, coordinated P-16 system. Failing to do so, they have argued, has kept too many students from ...