The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program was designed to meet the unique needs of the State of Tennessee, while also incorporating the hallmark elements of existing merit-based aid programs in other states. This manuscript provides a snapshot of TELS recipients and their outcomes, including narrative discussion on the current…

The creation of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program provides a natural experiment where a difference-in-differences estimation design is employed to isolate how state merit aid funding may lead institutions to change their institutional grant aid. Principal agent and resource dependence theories together establish state and…

The New Mexico Higher Education Department strives to bring leadership, guidance, and assistance to New Mexico's higher education stakeholders. The HED is committed to promoting best practices, institutional fiscal responsibility, and student achievement. Everything the agency does is through the lens of supporting New Mexico's higher education…

The New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) and higher education institutions (HEIs) have set long-term statewide goals to increase 4-year graduation rates, improve transfer and articulation, and improve remedial education outcomes. HED is pursuing these goals through the following initiatives: (1) Statewide common course numbering and…

The past decade has seen the emergence, predominantly in Thailand and mainland China, of a form of educational institution that has had little scholarly attention or generic identification. This paper shows how the ad hoc and opportunistic franchising of elite English private schools, beginning with the hyper-capitalist exportation of the Dulwich…

The Race to the Top program is authorized under sections 14005 and 14006 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Race to the Top is a competitive grant program to encourage and reward States that are implementing significant reforms in the four education areas described in the ARRA: enhancing standards and assessments,…

Describes how Ohio State University "taxes" all of its departments in order to award cash that provides a chosen few departments the means to reach top-ranked status. The university uses a well-publicized competition among departments, with professors choosing the winners. (EV)

This document contains witness testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine the operations of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Witnesses include the administrator, deputy administrator, and head of the research division of the OJJDP, along with a program specialist and a staff…

The Office of Consumers' Education's examination of 839 grant applications to gather factual information and to assess national interests, competencies, and talents in relation to potential to meet legislative requirements for consumer education programs are described. The introductory section provides a legislative history of the Office and notes…

This 16-year-old top level leader grant program offers selected mature men from 40 countries a view of professional, political and social facets of American life through unrestricted travel, seminars, interviews with leaders in government, management, education and industry and visits to private homes. (IR)

Determinants of grant-getting are explored for a national sample of over 5,000 faculty in all types of fields and senior institutions of higher education. Findings indicate a major dependence of grant-getting on productivity, a secondary impact by interfield favoritism, and minor influence by situational and personal status factors. (Author/LBH)

Projects supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) have a very high survival ratio after the grant has ended. The reason for this success seems to lie in the structure and principles of FIPSE. These principles (which can be adopted as guidelines in the creation of other innovation funds) include allowing maximum…

The power of consensus opinion among professors is the greatest threat to academic freedom in higher education. All public aid to higher education for teaching should be given directly to students and the process of disbursing research funds should be decentralized and made as competitive as possible. (Author/DN)

This guide presents information on the procedures for peer review of grant applications. It begins with an overview of the review process for grant application submission and review. The review process includes: (1) pre-submission procedures that enable the Institute to plan for specific review sessions; (2) application processing procedures; (3)…

The National Science Foundation Act of 1950 directs the Foundation "to initiate and support basic scientific research and programs to strengthen scientific research potential and science education programs at all levels." NSF achieves its unique mission by making merit-based awards to researchers, educators, and students at approximately…