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Direct linkAmanda Lu; Kaylee Matheny – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Study Background: This study delves into the intricacies of policy implementation within diverse institutional contexts, focusing on a federal initiative aimed at increasing low-income students' participation in dual enrollment programs through Pell Grants. Despite the policy's equity-oriented intentions, the actual impact varied significantly…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Higher Education, Dual Enrollment
Lindsay Daugherty; Jenna W. Kramer; Louis T. Mariano; Clare Cady; Heather Gomez-Bendaña; Tiffany Berglund; Samantha Ryan; Michelle Bongard; Joshua Eagan; Christopher Joseph Doss – RAND Corporation, 2025
Single Stop is a U.S. nonprofit organization that offers U.S. colleges services and tools to help students achieve economic security. Its portfolio of options includes an online platform that screens students' eligibility for public benefits programs, a search tool that connects students to community and college resources, and case management…
Descriptors: College Students, Needs, Need Gratification, Federal Programs
Pellegrino, Christina – College and University, 2022
This study examines U.S. national colleges and universities that have de-emphasized or eliminated ACT and SAT scores and have implemented test-optional policies for undergraduate admissions. The study investigates the test-optional admissions trend and provides a "pre-post" quantitative analysis of test-optional policy effects on the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Undergraduate Students, Admission Criteria
Download full textElsa H.K. Spencer; Joanna R. Vondrasek – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
Federal second chance Pell grants were recently made widely available to incarcerated students in the United States to fund undergraduate education. Piedmont Virginia Community College was a pilot site for this expansion and began full scale implementation of transfer-oriented associate degrees at three correctional centers in its service area.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Biology
Sontag-Padilla, Lisa; Williams, Denise; Kosiewicz, Holly; Daugherty, Lindsay; Kane, Heidi; Gripshover, Sarah; Miller, Trey – RAND Corporation, 2023
The United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis, with youth and young adults at the center. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 50 percent of college students reported at least one mental health concern. The COVID-19 pandemic notably exacerbated these issues and underscored the urgent need to identify and implement ways to…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Community College Students, Health Needs, Prevention
Sontag-Padilla, Lisa; Williams, Denise; Kosiewicz, Holly; Daugherty, Lindsay; Kane, Heidi; Gripshover, Sarah; Miller, Trey – RAND Corporation, 2023
The United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis, with youth and young adults at the center. Even before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, nearly 50 percent of college students reported at least one mental health concern. Without adequate mental health support, college students, including those at community colleges,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Community College Students, Health Needs, Prevention
