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Fernandez, Frank; Hu, Xiaodan; Umbricht, Mark – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Public funding to higher education has declined over the years and many states have experimented with policies to encourage private sector donations to public universities. Building on research that examines the intersection of state policy and philanthropy, we examine the influence of a state policy on endowment gifts to the University of Wyoming…
Descriptors: Endowment Funds, State Aid, Higher Education, Private Financial Support
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Rodriguez, Awilda; Rodriguez-Wilhelm, Davinia; Lebioda, Katherine; Kapp, Reuben; Wilson, Nicole – Research in Higher Education, 2022
As part of their strategies to increase college readiness and reduce educational inequalities, at least 29 states subsidize Advanced Placement (AP) exam fees for low-income students. However, while Michigan's state-level policy subsidized low-income student exams to $5 per exam, we found wide-ranging fee structures at high schools--from $0 to $50.…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Placement Tests, High School Students, Low Income Students
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Foster, John M.; Fowles, Jacob – Research in Higher Education, 2018
A rich interdisciplinary literature exists exploring the determinants of state higher education funding policies. However, that work has collectively ignored an important finding from political economy literature: namely, that citizens' preferences regarding public spending are strongly influenced by the state's ethnic and racial context. Drawing…
Descriptors: State Aid, Higher Education, Funding Formulas, State Policy
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Harrington, James R.; Muñoz, José; Curs, Bradley R.; Ehlert, Mark – Research in Higher Education, 2016
The adoption of state-funded merit-based aid programs has become increasingly popular among policy-makers, particularly in the southeastern part of the United States. One of the primary rationales of state-funded merit-based aid is to provide scholarships to the best and brightest students as a means to retain high quality human capital in the…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, State Aid, Merit Scholarships, Regression (Statistics)