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Laura W. Perna – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2025
Concerns about the rising cost of college and growing student loan debt have intensified in recent years, with 85% of non-enrolled adults citing affordability as a key barrier (Gallup & Lumina Foundation, 2024) and a third of currently enrolled college students agreeing that their "institution charges too much for an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Access to Education, Financial Support, State Programs
Dechausay, Nadine; Anzelone, Caitlin – Administration for Children & Families, 2016
This report describes a collaboration between the Indiana Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning (OECOSL) and the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) team. The OECOSL is the lead agency responsible for administering the state's Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which provides child care subsidies to…
Descriptors: Child Care, Grants, Early Childhood Education, After School Programs
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Toutkoushian, Robert K.; Hossler, Don; DesJardins, Stephen L.; McCall, Brian; Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S. – Review of Higher Education, 2015
Our study adds to prior work on Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars(TFCS) program by focusing on whether participating in--rather than completing--the program affects the likelihood of students going to college and where they initially enrolled. We first employ binary and multinomial logistic regression to obtain estimates of the impact of the…
Descriptors: Student Participation, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences, Regression (Statistics)
New Educational Directions, Crawfordsville, IN. – 1979
To increase quality of Indiana State Board of Vocational and Technical Education (SBVTE) proposals and final reports, a study assessed the quality of sixty SBVTE proposals and final reports from fiscal year 1976-77 and provided SBVTE with quantified descriptions of them. The first review involved acquiring descriptive information about how the…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Program Proposals
Zumeta, William; Mock, Carol – 1985
An overview of an ongoing study of state policies and private postsecondary education is presented. It is suggested that higher education should be viewed in the context of a state's practices in other human service policy areas (e.g., social and health services). Three types of state policy postures are emphasized: laissez-faire, market…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, College Choice, College Planning
Zumeta, William; Green, Kenneth C. – 1987
Results of a study concerning the relationships between state policies and private college enrollments, enrollment demographics, and finance are presented. After considering national enrollment trends in the independent sector, attention is directed to the impacts on private colleges of state fiscal policies, including aid to private colleges and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Planning, Data Collection, Enrollment Trends
Illinois State Scholarship Commission, Deerfield. – 1986
The National Association of State Scholarship and Grant Programs/National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs conference on student aid is reported. Following the conference agenda and lists of registrants and conference speakers, the following papers are presented: (1) "Reinterpretation of Hansen's Census Data" (John B. Lee); (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Black Students, College Choice