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Dae Y. Kim; Karin Gegenheimer – Research for Action, 2023
In 2015, Tennessee launched Tennessee Promise (TN Promise), one of the most comprehensive and well-funded statewide free-college scholarship programs in the country. To support TN Promise students, and especially those from the lowest-income households, tnAchieves, a key partner facilitating all non-financial components of TN Promise, implemented…
Descriptors: College Programs, Scholarships, State Programs, Outcomes of Education
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Kyongsei Sohn; Sandeep Singh; John T. Gardner – Journal of Education Finance, 2022
New York State (NYS) launched the Excelsior Scholarship in 2017. It is designed to make college tuition-free for students who attend publicly funded institutions and meet certain criteria. Is this scholarship a good investment for taxpayers of NYS? How long does it take taxpayers to recover their investment? This case analysis takes a perspective…
Descriptors: Scholarships, State Programs, Taxes, Tuition
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Smith, Katie N. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2021
In 2018-2019, North Carolina implemented a loan forgiveness program to recruit talented postsecondary students into teaching majors in needed subject areas. This qualitative case study analyzes the influence of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program (NCTFP) on 10 student participants' college, major, and career plans in STEM education to…
Descriptors: Fellowships, Student Loan Programs, State Programs, Loan Repayment
Van Orden, Alexia – Maryland Higher Education Commission, 2020
The State of Maryland has always prided itself on being a leader in higher education. In 2012, the Career and College Readiness and College Completion Act (CCRCCA) set an ambitious goal: that 55% of Marylanders would have at least one degree by 2025. Reaching this goal requires increasing college access and completion across a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Educational Policy
Webster, Riley – Administration for Children & Families, 2019
The Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (MSTED) is testing the effectiveness of subsidized employment for individuals enrolled in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), Minnesota's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, who were unable to find employment after participating in the state's existing…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Welfare Services, Employment Programs, Grants
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Bettinger, Eric – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
This article exploits a natural experiment to estimate the effects of need-based aid policies on first-year college persistence rates. In fall 2006, Ohio abruptly adopted a new state financial aid policy that was significantly more generous than the previous plan. Using student-level data and very narrowly defined sets of students, I estimate a…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, Academic Persistence, College Students
Wilson, Stacy – California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2009
In the absence of continuous legislative and institutional intervention, the demand for services provided by vocational and registered nurses in California over the next ten years will greatly outpace the supply of nurses anticipated to flow from postsecondary degree programs. Nursing education and supply issues can be better understood and…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Supply and Demand, State Programs
Goetz, Bill – North Dakota University System, 2009
This document presents a speech delivered by Chancellor Bill Goertz at the meeting of the State Board of Higher Education last November 19, 2009. In his speech, Chancellor Goertz reports that: (1) according to a Delta Cost Project report, North Dakota ranked among the top five states in regard to market-based productivity; (2) the Midwest Higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Search Committees (Personnel), Distance Education
Barak, Robert J. – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2007
A survey of the academic program review and approval activity of state-wide postsecondary coordinating and governing boards was concluded in 2006. This study is the latest in a series of survey/studies of state level program review and approval begun roughly thirty years ago by this author and colleagues. The boards selected for this survey were…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Postsecondary Education, Surveys, State Programs