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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Applying Insights from Faculty Teaching Practices to Science and Math Education Reforms
(2011-01-25)Policymakers and educators are increasingly expressing concerns that the U.S. is lagging behind other countries in educating the next generation of mathematicians and scientists. In response, the federal government, private ... -
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. -
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, ... -
Bouncebacks in Higher Education Funding: Patterns in Length of Time to Recovery Following Cuts in State Appropriations
(2011-08-30)State appropriations for higher education are highly cyclical, with downturns in funding during difficult financial times followed by increases in funding when state finances improve. This policy brief shares recent research ... -
College and University Commitments to Student Access and Success: An Overview of Institutional Postsecondary Opportunity Programs
(2010-07-19)The federal and state governments are placing greater emphasis on postsecondary attainment while concerns about rising college costs for students and families surge. Both groups are calling on institutions to do more to ... -
College and University Commitments to Student Access and Success: An Overview of Institutional Postsecondary Opportunity Programs
(2010-07-19)The federal and state governments are placing greater emphasis on postsecondary attainment while concerns about rising college costs for students and families surge. Both groups are calling on institutions to do more to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Distance from Public Institutions of Higher Education: Public Perceptions of UW?Madison
(2012-03)Public opinion matters for the administration of public higher education. Yet, we know little about how members of the public conceptualize these institutions in general, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in particular. ... -
The Effects of Public Support on College Attainment
(2009-12)This study estimates the extent that state financial support for higher education raises college attainment. Despite its manifest importance for policy, this is the first study to estimate this effect directly. Many studies ... -
Exploring Faculty Decision-Making Processes for Using Instructional Technology in the Classroom: Implications for Policy and Practice
(2012-03-28)Given the primacy of instructional technology in today?s college classroom, it is important to understand how faculty use these tools, especially how they adapt specific tools to meet the unique needs of particular faculty ... -
Factors Contributing to the Upward Transfer of Baccalaureate Aspirants Beginning at Community Colleges
(2010-11)Incorporating the psychological perspective, this study examines factors associated with the upward transfer of baccalaureate aspirants beginning at community colleges. Based on data from the National Education Longitudinal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"If We only Told our Story Better..." Re-envisioning State-University Relations Through the Lens of Public Engagement
(2011-04-26)A prevailing notion among higher education leaders is that public relations and marketing efforts must be intensified to boost legislative support for colleges and universities. However, this view fails to consider whether ... -
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 ...