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Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2022
Alongside primary and secondary education, tertiary education is a critical component of the education ecosystem. Universities' role in strengthening and informing education policy and practice at every level -- training teachers, creating pedagogical content, and leading educational research -- is central to reimagining education to address the…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Finance, Benchmarking, Global Approach
Ariel J. Gilbert – ProQuest LLC, 2022
New Jersey Air and Army National Guard (NJAANG) undergraduate students endure multiple transitions throughout their academic career. In 2020, for example, the COVID-19 pandemic caused numerous activations and manning demands for the NJAANG population, further stressing coping methods. Using the follow-up, explanatory sequential mixed methods…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Armed Forces, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Education Week, 2021
Budget season isn't any easier for school finance officials this year than it was last year, when they were bracing for a pandemic-driven recession, extra expenses, and ever-changing logistical demands due to COVID-19. This second of three Quality Counts 2021 installments surveys school- and district-level leaders on their spending hurdles,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Olmstead, Matthew L. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A portion of state-allocated funding for Texas community colleges has been reserved for the completion of outcome metrics, also known as performance-based funding. Texas community college leaders are faced with the challenges of adapting to increasing pressures from performance-based funding, while also ensuing institutional missions and goals are…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Community Colleges, Performance Based Assessment
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Amy Y. Li; Xiaodan Hu – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Between 1997 and 2019, 16 out of 41 performance-based funding (PBF) states discontinued their PBF policies for public colleges and universities. Adapting policy diffusion theory to PBF discontinuation, we investigate whether policy discontinuation in one state is related to discontinuations in other states, and differentiate between the two policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Government School Relationship
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Topeka Small Singleton – IGI Global, 2025
Accountability in higher education has become a critical issue as higher education institutions face scrutiny over student outcomes, financial transparency, and the value of a college degree. As the cost of tuition is on the rise and student debt growing, the concerns on equitability and the concerns of student engagement have left many in the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Educational Benefits
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Achilleas Mandrikas; Constantina Stefanidou – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
In this paper, primary teachers' views about STEM education and the conditions of its introduction to primary education are investigated. The results came from 114 questionnaires and 27 structured primary teachers' interviews. STEM is clearly perceived as an interdisciplinary subject with many advantages, related to the cultivation of students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Benjamin K. Master; Elaine Lin Wang; Brian Phillips – RAND Corporation, 2025
This report presents summative findings from RAND's six-year evaluation of the BHP Foundation's Education Equity program. The evaluation is based on a review of funded partner organizations' internal program progress reports, performance indicators, and independent project evaluation reports; interviews with representatives from partner…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Equal Education, Program Effectiveness
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Park, Jae – Smart Learning Environments, 2021
Blockchain is arguably the next technology-mediated socioeconomic mega trend after the ongoing era of Net Neutrality and Big Data. This theoretical paper explores blockchain technology and its impacts on education. It is argued that we cannot take for granted that the network neutrality, popularized accessibility of the "Internet" and…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Socioeconomic Influences, Educational Finance, Student Projects
Leach, Todd J. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Colleges and universities were hit hard by the COVID crisis. The American Council on Education (ACE) estimated a total impact of $120 billion in a recent letter to legislators. That number reflects both direct expenses and lost revenues. It is easy to identify the direct expenses associated with testing, cleaning, PPE, remote learning technology…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Colleges, Educational Finance
Ferguson, Maria – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Congress has allocated just under $190 billion to support K-12 education. As Maria Ferguson explains, these much-needed funds will require states and districts to make plans for how best to use them, and the planning process is complicated in districts that are already stretched and facing…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
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Trentacoste, Peter J.; Ward, Molly C.; Aluso, Salome; Copeland, Olivia C.; Nguyen, David J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2021
This article reflects on how financial operations, especially at community colleges and regional public institutions, were adversely affected by the pandemic and considers what institutions could do moving forward and for the future.
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Student Personnel Services, Community Colleges, Regional Schools
Kuzmich, Holly – George W. Bush Institute, Education Reform Initiative, 2021
Despite warnings that the school schedule that has been around for more than 100 years is not optimal for serving students' needs, little has changed. The needs of kids and families look very different today than they did 50 years ago. One-size-fits-all prescriptions do not meet the needs of a diverse student population. Rethinking the school…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, School Schedules, Community Needs
Arkansas Division of Higher Education, 2021
A.C.A. §6-61-234 (Act 148 of 2017) directs the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board (AHECB) to adopt polices developed by the Arkansas Division of Higher Education (ADHE) necessary to implement a productivity-based funding model for state-supported institutions of higher education. At its October 27, 2017 meeting, the AHECB approved the…
Descriptors: State Aid, Higher Education, Budgets, Funding Formulas
Danuta Twardowska-Case – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In 2009, Robert Andringa, the former president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, observed that many Christian colleges were "fragile and on the brink" while facing enormous financial and enrollment challenges (p. 168). The state of most small Christian colleges has not improved since 2009, but it has rather become…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Colleges, Governing Boards, Role
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