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Gonzalez, Vanessa – New Directions for Higher Education, 2022
Policies on academic probation and dismissal have existed in the American higher education system for decades to maintain academic quality and encourage students to improve their performance. Research has aimed to clarify the relationship between academic probation, dismissal, and retention, yet differing results emerge. Furthermore, the…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Academic Failure, Student Attrition, Educational Finance
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Harris, Nathan F. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2022
Higher education scholars often investigate the policy mechanisms of external accountability, but rarely explore institutional mechanisms of internal accountability. This chapter, which reports select findings from an in-depth case study of institutional budgeting at an American public research university, examines an underexplored mechanism of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Research Universities, Public Colleges, Budgeting
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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2022
Enrichment programs make up a small but significant part of a community college's offerings. In some cases, their impact can be enormous--especially in rural areas where a community college might be the only source of enrichment for residents. Community enrichment programs also can be challenging to administer. For instance, it can be hard to find…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Community Colleges, Community Programs, Values
Gibbons, Michael T. – National Science Foundation, 2022
Research and development spending by academic institutions totaled $89.9 billion in FY 2021, an increase of $3.4 billion (4.0%) from FY 2020 (table 1). R&D expenditures funded from federal sources accounted for $3.0 billion of the total increase. Federally funded R&D expenditures had not increased by $3 billion or more since FY 2011, when…
Descriptors: Universities, Research and Development, Federal Aid, Expenditures
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Sheri Beeler; Carol Cox – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2025
Evidence supports increasing student physical activity in school, and Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs (CSPAPs) can help students meet national physical activity goals to support their physical and mental health. Although strategies and frameworks are readily available to support schools in their efforts to implement successful…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Grants
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Michael Griffith; Dion Burns – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
Addressing the needs of all student groups is paramount for ensuring equitable access to learning opportunities and fostering high academic success for all students. Students in the United States come from a diverse range of backgrounds, bringing with them knowledge, experiences, and other assets that inform the way they learn, but may also come…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Educational Policy, Financial Support
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Amy Y. Li; Meredith S. Billings; Denisa Gándara; Xiaodan Hu – Community College Review, 2025
Objective/Research Question: Many localities have implemented promise programs, which cover tuition for students to attend college based on residency criteria. These "free college" programs have been shown to increase student enrollment, creating the need for additional institutional resources to support student graduation. We analyzed…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation
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Toutkoushian, Robert; Raghav, Manu – Education Finance and Policy, 2021
In this study, we use institution-level data for the period 2004 to 2016 from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the excess revenues of private, four-year nonprofit institutions. We present data on the magnitude of excess revenues for these institutions over this period, examine how excess revenues are associated with…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Income, Educational Finance, Influences
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Johnson, Nate – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
In recent decades, education leaders and researchers have increasingly sought to disaggregate key higher education outcome data--graduation rates, attainment, employment, and income--by race and ethnicity in order to uncover and narrow equity gaps. The same is true, recently, for affordability, especially as it relates to the differential impact…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Data Analysis, Educational Equity (Finance)
Nguyen, Mike Hoa; Gogue, Demeturie Toso-Lafaele; Espinoza, Kristine Jan Cruz; Neilson, Patricia Akemi; Venturanza, Rikka J. – Online Submission, 2023
Through a case study of 25 funded AANAPISIs, this report explores how colleges and universities become AANAPISIs; serve Asian American, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander students; and institutionalize their initiatives. Implications and recommendations are offered for policy, practice, and research. [This report is a publication of the APIA…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, American Indian Students, Pacific Islanders, Minority Serving Institutions
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Derek R. O'Connell – Critical Questions in Education, 2024
This case study uses the theory of academic capitalism (TAC) to explore how a public university known primarily for undergraduate education is incorporating market-oriented practices and structures, and how those changes could impact its curriculum and enrollment profile. Through initiatives to establish an engineering college, expand graduate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Universities, Educational Change
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Rachel Hinton; Holly Scott; Shawn Powers; Salim Salamah – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
In this reflective piece, representatives of the agencies that funded and managed the Early Learning Systems Research program -- the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the World Bank -- take stock of recent global developments in research, policy, and financing by donors for early childhood education (ECE). A rapid increase…
Descriptors: Donors, Early Childhood Education, Coordination, Educational Policy
Kristin Jasper – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education administrators face challenges related to declining net tuition revenues. Net tuition revenues are sustaining decreases related to tuition discounting and declining enrollments. College and university leaders were interviewed in this qualitative study to determine why it is challenging to reverse narrowing net tuition revenues and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Tuition, Income, Cost Effectiveness
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Nafsika Alexiadou; Carina Hjelmér; Anne Laiho; Päivi Pihlaja – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is changing across Europe, reflecting multiple-policy intentions and assumptions about education in early years, and the role of the state in supporting, funding and regulating its institutions. In this article, we examine the evolution of ECEC comparatively in Finland and Sweden, and we explore the shifts…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
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Emma Rowe; Sarah Langman; Christopher Lubienski – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Drawing upon a long-term study of venture philanthropy and public schools in Australia, this paper focuses on Teach For Australia (TFA) as a major component of a venture philanthropic network, one that builds critical infrastructures and connections between non-government organisations and the state, creating a product pipeline into public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Privatization, Private Financial Support
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