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Prawitz, Aimee D.; Cohart, Judith – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2014
Based on the life-cycle theory of consumption, this quasi-experimental study of 995 employees examined changes in financial behaviors following employee-needs-driven workplace financial education. Repeated-measures ANOVA compared participants and non-participants on perceived financial wellness and savings ratios; main effects indicated that both…
Descriptors: Money Management, Quasiexperimental Design, Retirement, Budgeting
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Crookston, Andrew; Hooks, Gregory – Sociology of Education, 2012
In the decades following World War II, a significant expansion of community colleges occurred throughout the United States. As the baby boom generation came of age, demand for higher education spiked, and policy makers allocated the requisite funding to expand institutions of higher education. This expansion, including vigorous funding from…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Budgeting, Retrenchment, Employment
Asmussen, John G. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The importance of college completion has risen high on the U.S. policy agenda in recent years. An obvious strategy for increasing college completion is improving graduation rates, which for public universities have hovered around 50% for decades. Higher education scholars previously have revealed many student and institutional characteristics…
Descriptors: Evidence, Higher Education, Budgeting, Universities