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Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2025
The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program was designed to meet the unique needs of the State of Tennessee, while also incorporating the hallmark elements of existing merit-based aid programs in other states. This manuscript provides a snapshot of TELS recipients and their outcomes, including narrative discussion on the current…
Descriptors: Competitive Selection, State Programs, Outcomes of Education, Scholarships
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2024
America's regional comprehensive public institutions of higher education serve a unique role as the portal through which so many of the students and much of the nation's future workforce gain the skills needed to face the economic challenges of the 21st century. In support of the critical role that its members play in the development of their…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, Accountability
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2023
America's regional comprehensive public institutions of higher education (American Association of State Colleges and Universities institutions, AASCU) serve a unique role as the portal through which so many of the students and much of the nation's future workforce gain the skills needed to face the economic challenges of the 21st century. In…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, Accountability
Burczek Dreier, John – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The creation of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program provides a natural experiment where a difference-in-differences estimation design is employed to isolate how state merit aid funding may lead institutions to change their institutional grant aid. Principal agent and resource dependence theories together establish state and…
Descriptors: State Aid, Merit Scholarships, Grants, Competitive Selection
Nathaniel A. Dewey, Compiler; Rachel E. Durham, Compiler; Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu, Compiler; Curt Cronister, Compiler; Marc L. Stein, Compiler – Baltimore Education Research Consortium, 2023
This digest provides descriptive, aggregated statistics related to the experiences of 10 cohorts of graduates of City Schools from school years 2010-11 through 2019-20. The compilers use multiple indicators of college access, including the process of applying for college and financial aid, enrollment in the fall following high school graduation,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, College Attendance, High School Graduates, Public Schools
Mothkovich, Troy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Most low-income, high-achieving students in the United States neither attend nor apply to selective universities despite research that shows that they are just as likely as their high-income peers to succeed if they do apply to those schools. Despite the fact that many universities have begun offering substantial financial aid packages that would…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Low Income, Student Financial Aid, Selective Admission