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Perna, Laura W.; Wright-Kim, Jeremy; Leigh, Elaine W. – AERA Open, 2020
Also known as "free tuition," college promise programs are emerging across the United States as a potential mechanism for improving college access and affordability, Whether these initiatives are an effective use of resources depends on whether programs advance societal goals for equity and efficiency. Although some emerging research…
Descriptors: Program Design, Tuition, Access to Education, Higher Education
Rauner, Mary; Perna, Laura W.; Kanter, Martha J. – WestEd, 2018
College Promise programs are thriving in California, and with the continued growth comes a need to understand the features of these diverse efforts and the perspectives of the communities in which they exist. In 2018, the James Irvine Foundation supported California College Promise Project (CCPP) at WestEd to study the College Promise landscape in…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Descriptions, Paying for College, Student Financial Aid
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Perna, Laura W.; Orosz, Kata; Gopaul, Bryan; Jumakulov, Zakir; Ashirbekov, Adil; Kishkentayeva, Marina – Educational Researcher, 2014
This article sheds light on the availability and characteristics of international scholarship programs that are sponsored by national and federal governments worldwide and that are intended to promote student mobility. Utilizing descriptive and cluster analyses, the article produces a framework for organizing the population of these programs. The…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Cross Cultural Studies, Program Design, Student Mobility
Perna, Laura W. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2005
This article describes what is known from prior research about the impact of student financial aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family (including parents' and children's) college-going aspirations, expectations, and plans, and the resulting college-going behaviors of potential students. The review focuses on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, Student Financial Aid