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One Policy, Disparate Reactions: Institutional Responses in Florida's Developmental Education Reform
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Park, Toby J.; Tandberg, David A.; Hu, Shouping; Hankerson, Dava – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This paper seeks to better understand how community colleges in Florida planned to implement a new sweeping state policy pertaining to developmental education. Via a cluster analysis, we identify three distinct patterns in the ways in which the colleges responded to the policy: reformers, responders, and resisters. Further, we find that these…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, State Policy
High School Economic Composition and College Persistence
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Niu, Sunny X.; Tienda, Marta – Research in Higher Education, 2013
Using a longitudinal sample of Texas high school seniors of 2002 who enrolled in college within the calendar year of high school graduation, we examine variation in college persistence according to the economic composition of their high schools, which serves as a proxy for unmeasured high school attributes that are conductive to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Time to Degree, Institutional Characteristics, School Demography
The New Forgotten Half and Research Directions to Support Them. A William T. Grant Foundation Inequality Paper
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Rosenbaum, James; Ahearn, Caitlin; Becker, Kelly; Rosenbaum, Janet – William T. Grant Foundation, 2015
In 1988, the William T. Grant Foundation issued "The Forgotten Half," the final report of the Foundation's Commission on Youth and America's Future. Focusing on inequality in American society, specifically among non-college-bound 16-24 year olds, the report explored the challenges facing young people and the institutions that serve them.…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Disadvantaged, Futures (of Society), Educational Policy
The New Forgotten Half and Research Directions to Support Them. Summary and Key Findings. A William T. Grant Foundation Inequality Paper
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Rosenbaum, James; Ahearn, Caitlin; Becker, Kelly; Rosenbaum, Janet – William T. Grant Foundation, 2015
In 1988, the William T. Grant Foundation issued "The Forgotten Half," the final report of the Foundation's Commission on Youth and America's Future. Focusing on inequality in American society, specifically among non-college-bound 16-24 year olds, the report explored the challenges facing young people and the institutions that serve them.…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Disadvantaged, Futures (of Society), Educational Policy
Faculty Perceptions of Institutional Effectiveness
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LoCascio, Susan H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined (a) the differences in perceptions of faculty, full-time versus part-time, at a community college in northern Alabama on the importance of institutional effectiveness activities; (b) the factors that affect perceptions of the importance of institutional effectiveness activities; and (c) the effect of academic discipline,…
Descriptors: Tenure, Institutional Evaluation, Intellectual Disciplines, Regression (Statistics)
Time for Decisions: Visualizing the Future. Proceedings of the Annual NEAIR Conference (39th, Bethesda, Maryland, November 3-6, 2012)
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Carson, Cristi, Ed. – Online Submission, 2012
The NEAIR (North East Association for Institutional Research) 2012 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Bethesda, Maryland conference. Papers in this document include: (1) Can a Marketing Campaign Increase Response Rates to Online Course Evaluations? (Kimberly Puhala); (2) Developing Community College Peer…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Marketing, Course Evaluation, Response Rates (Questionnaires)