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Direct linkDaniel Sparks – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation includes three chapters focusing on policies directly related to improving college access and success. The first chapter focuses on lifetime eligibility of federal and state financial aid policies. The Pell Grant plays a critical role in helping students across the US to afford undergraduate education. In spite of its importance…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Access to Education, College Attendance
Download full textEmrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
Student parents face many challenges, including paying for child care, that can make it difficult for them to complete a degree. The federal government supports student parents through Education's Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program, which provides colleges funding for child care services, and federal student aid, which can…
Descriptors: Child Care, Parents, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Karnes, Sandra Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This ethnographic case study investigated second year college students who participated in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program at a technical college in northeastern Pennsylvania. In order to understand how learners stayed motivated in a college setting, I selected participants who were in their second year of the TAA program. A total of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Technical Education, Postsecondary Education, Semi Structured Interviews
Seftor, Neil S.; Calcagno, Juan Carlos – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2010
This final report updates the report "Upward Bound Math-Science: Program Description and Interim Impact Estimates" published in 2007 (Olsen et al. 2007). The 2007 interim report contained descriptive findings from a survey of Upward Bound Math-Science (UBMS) grantees from the late 1990s at the time of the study's initiation and impact estimates…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, High School Students, Disadvantaged Youth, College Preparation
Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
This annual newsletter contains updates on the latest Community College Research Center (CCRC) research, new publications and details of upcoming presentations at major conferences. The feature article in this issue, "Strategies for Increasing Student Success," by Thomas Bailey, summarizes the discussion found in the CCRC Assessment of Evidence…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement, Online Courses
Regional Resource Center Program, 2011
This brief is intended to provide State Education Agency (SEA) and Local Education Agency (LEA) educators with a brief overview of key components of GraduateFIRST, a Georgia program targeting issues impacting school completion for students with disabilities. Georgia's GraduateFIRST program has redefined the state's approach to raising graduation…
Descriptors: Disabilities, School Readiness, Technical Assistance, Individualized Education Programs
Myers, David; Olsen, Rob; Seftor, Neil; Young, Julie; Tuttle, Christina – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2004
Policymakers have long been concerned about the disparities in college attendance between more and less advantaged groups of students. Upward Bound is one of the largest and longest running federal programs designed to help economically disadvantaged students prepare for, enter and succeed in college. Since December 1991, Mathematica Policy…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Outcomes of Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Cahalan, Margaret; And Others – 1994
This is the first interim report of the congressionally mandated National Study of Student Support Services (SSS), a federally funded grant program designed to help economically disadvantaged students achieve success at the postsecondary level. The program is intended to facilitate disadvantaged students' high school completion, entry into and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Administrators, Case Studies
