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Author(s):Kienzl, G., Sponsler, B., Wesaw, A., Kumar, A., and Jones, J.
Title:Smart money: Informing higher education philanthropy
Source:http://www.ihep.org/assets/files/publications/s...
Date:2011
Organization:Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
Short Description:Smart Money: Informing Higher Education Philanthropy offers a unique and innovative approach to help national and community foundations with identifying distinct postsecondary education-focused funding strategies and opportunities.
Annotation:Smart Money: Informing Higher Education Philanthropy offers a unique and innovative approach to help national and community foundations with identifying distinct postsecondary education-focused funding strategies and opportunities. It sets out to inform philanthropic decision making to support postsecondary education practice and national degree attainment goals through “mapping metropolitan areas” based on national data of both the current degree attainment rate and the change in that rate over the past decade.
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U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
PERSIST: A comprehensive guide for student success in higher education
Engaged learning: Fostering success for all students
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
The road less traveled? Students who enroll in multiple institutions
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Student retention and graduation: Facing the truth, living with the consequences
College learning for the new global century
Focus on foster care: Building educational support for youth in care
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The relationship between advanced placement and college graduation
College success programs
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
Improving student attainment in community colleges: Institutional characteristics and policies
High school academic preparation and postsecondary progress
Does implementing a research based school counseling curriculum enhance student achievement
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Postsecondary education opportunity
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
Leaving boys behind: Public high school graduation rates
Does public funding for higher education matter?
The art of student retention
Where have all the students gone? Higher education by the numbers
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Leadership for challenging times: Report of the Commission on presidential leadership and global competitiveness (Executive Summary)
With their whole lives ahead of them: Myths and realities about why so many students fail to finish college
Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors
Working too hard to make the grade: How fewer work hours and more financial aid can help California community college students succeed
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Learning and assessment: Trends in undergraduate education
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Keeping score when it counts: Sweet 16 men's and women's teams: A look at their academic success
Ready to assemble: Grading state higher education accountability systems
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
Promoting economic mobility by increasing postsecondary education
Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first generation students
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
IPEDS Data Center
College readiness for the 21st century: A blog on college readiness in practice and policy
Investing in Indiana's adult workers: Increasing financial aid opportunities
National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
More student success: A systemic solution
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
The building blocks of success: Higher-level math for all students
Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis inthe U. S. workforce
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
The learning communities demonstration: Rationale, sites, and research design
Strengthening financial aid policies for low-income working adults
I-STEM Resource Network
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Opportunity matters: A journal of research informing educational opportunity, practice and programs
Non-traditional student success in public two-year colleges
Imagine success: Engaging entering students
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
State policies on student transitions: Results of a 50-state inventory
College access and success state data
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Measuring up 2008
Coming to our senses: Education and the American future
New measures, new perspectives: Graduates time-and-credits-to degree in SREB states
The for-profit postsecondary school sector: Nimble critters or agile predators?
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
NSSE Annual results 2011: Fostering student engagement campuswide
The 'personalization' of higher education: Using technology to enhance the college experience
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Operation College Promise
Can applying to more colleges increase enrollment rates?
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Time is the enemy: The surprising truth about why today's college students aren't graduating... And what needs to change
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Scaling up Breaking Through: 2010 evaluation
Latino college completion: California
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
The case for change in college admissions
Moving the starting line through prior learning assessment
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
The Aspen Prize for community college excellence
The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
The economic value of opportunity youth
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
The college completion agenda: 2011 progress report
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Study: College degrees pay off most for African Americans in California
The impact of affirmative action bans in graduate education
2012 SREB Annual Report
5 Education factors in focus
Where to begin? The evolving role of placement exams for students starting college
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
The other pipeline: From prison to diploma: Community colleges and correctional education programs
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
The Adult Education and Economic Growth Act: Toward a modern adult education system and a more educated workforce
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
An examination of the information technology job market
A national talent strategy: Ideas for securing US competitiveness and economic growth
Adult college completion toolkit
Middle skills jobs and the growing importance of postsecondary education
Collegiate remediation: A review of the causes and consequences
Portable, stackable credentials: A new education model for industry-specific career pathways
Core principles for transforming remedial education: A joint statement
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
The economic benefits of postsecondary degrees: A state and national level analysis
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Working credentials: Sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates are paying off for students and their employers
National and regional accreditation information
National and regional workforce solutions: New industry-higher education projects for the NextGen U.S. workforce
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Information and college access: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Business resources for a college- and career-ready America
2012 National survey of school counselors: True north: Charting the course to college and career readiness
Data for action 2012: Focus on people to change data culture
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Black male student athletes and racial inequities in NCAA division I college sports
Progress of education reform: Producing quality credentials: Why data and analytics matter
Graduating to a pay gap: The earnings of women and men one year after college graduation
ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology, 2012
Choosing who delivers: The impact of placing limits on the delivery of remedial education at four-year institutions
A disruptive look at competency-based education: How the innovative use of technology will transform the college experience
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Leading by example: A case study of peer leader programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges
Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Higher education: Gaps in access and persistence study
Factbook Bulletin: Minority enrollment gains show region's progress toward college completion goals
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
Increasing college and career readiness through dual enrollment: Research, policies, and effective practices
What can a multifaceted program do for community college students?
Maximizing the College Choice Process to Increase Fit & Match for Underserved Students
Student success courses and educational outcomes at Virginia community colleges
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study (2012)
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Improving the odds for failing schools
Education and the economy: The economic benefits of helping high school dropouts earn both high school diplomas and college degrees
Final report of the task force on undergraduate graduation rates
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Challenges community colleges face to reach the unemployed
Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Prison vs. Princeton
Unbundling youth, family, and community involvement in college access: On the ground in Austin, Texas
Charter-school management organizations: Diverse strategies and diverse student impacts
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Western Policy Exchanges
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more effective education and workforce development systems in the states
Project WIn-Win
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
The Future Ready Project
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
Women see value and benefits of college; Men lag on both fronts, survey finds
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
High flyers: Policies and strategies that boost developmental education success in Florida's community colleges
Single mothers and college success: Charting paths out of poverty
Adult College Completion Network: Project Warehouse
Unlocking the gate: What we know about improving developmental education
Focus on education for the formerly incarcerated
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
Serving adult learners in higher education: Prinicples of effectiveness (Executive summary)
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Pat Tillman Foundation
Lumina Foundation Focus: Flexing the faculty
Higher education: Use of new data could help improve oversight of distance education
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Up for grabs: The gains and prospects of first- and second generation young adults
STEM: Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Full Report)
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Community college success: Is it a pathway to opportunity?
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
Corporate investments in college readiness and access
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The case for more attention to financial assistance for adult learners in Indiana who will need to seek Bachelor's degree completion at a distance
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Using increased funding under the Workforce Investment Act to create multiple pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and middle-class employment
College outcomes comparisons by AP and non-AP high school experiences
Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students
Back to basics: Improving college readiness of community college students
Do community colleges provide a viable pathway to a Baccalaureate degree?
Promoting student success in community colleges by increasing student support services
The impact of new college graduates on intrastate labor markets
Descriptive summary of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: Three years later
The male achievement gap in Indiana
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
Redesigning the ninth-grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement, and increase high school graduation rates
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Education & the military spouse: The long road to success
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Foundations for success: Short-term impacts report
Are student employment and academic success linked?
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Changing course: Improving Aboriginal access to post-secondary education in Canada
Summer Search
Dynamic annotated bibliographies from the IPCN online college access library
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA women's and men's division I basketball tournament teams
Keeping score when it counts: Assessing the 2008-09 bowl-bound college football teams: Academic performance improves, but race still matters
Keeping score when it counts: Graduation rates and academic progress rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA men's division I basketball tournament teams
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
Taking stock: Higher education and Latinos
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Higher education performance funding 2.0 - Funding degrees (tip sheet)
Training tomorrow's workforce: Community college and apprenticeship as collaborative routes to rewarding careers
Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Achieving the Dream Equity Resource Center
Making the connections: Connecting state and institutional policies to improve student success
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
SPIDO (State Policy Inventory Database Online)
The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention
College access, financial aid, and college success for undergraduates from foster care
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Migrant students attending college: Facilitating their success
Access denied: Restoring the nation’s commitment to equal educational opportunity
College access in Indiana and the United States: A 2003-04 status report
Missed opportunities: A new look at disadvantaged college aspirants
How is school reform tied to increasing college access and success for low income and minority youth
Paths to persistence: An analysis of research on program effectiveness at community colleges
Lumina Foundation focus: Refuse to lose: Today’s colleges and universities must work to foster student success
Early exit: Understanding adult attrition in accelerated and traditional postsecondary programs
An overview of higher education in the United States: Diversity, access, and the role of the marketplace
Converting data into action: Expanding the boundaries of institutional improvement
Placing college graduation rates in context: How 4-Year college graduation rates vary with selectivity and the size of low-income enrollment
CSO College Center: A student gateway to college access, opportunity, and success
Preparing today's high school students for tomorrow's opportunities
Intercollegiate athletes and effective educational practice: Winning combination or losing effort
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Act on fact: Using data to improve student success
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
Accelerated learning for all
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
The postsecondary educational experiences of high school career and technical education concentrators: Selected results from the NELS: 88/2000 Postsecondary education transcript study
Keeping America's promise: A report on the future of the community college
Engaging students, challenging the odds
A whole 'nother world: Students navigating community college
Adult learning focused institution (ALFI) initiative
The path through graduate school: A longitudinal examination 10 years after bachelor’s degree
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Demography is not destiny: Increasing the graduation rates of low-income college students at large public universities
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
In need of improvement: NCLB & high schools
Persistence and attainment of 2003-04 beginning postsecondary students: After three years
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
Fifty states of achieving the dream: State policies to enhance access to community colleges across the United States
Results that matter: Twenty-first century skills and high school reform
Statement of principals: Twenty-first century skills and the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA
Innovation America: A compact for postsecondary education
Retooling career and technical education
Forming a college-going community in U.S. public high schools
Alabama: Featured facts from the SREB Fact Book on higher education
The real technology challenge
Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Do student success courses actually help community college students succeed?
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Improving academic performance among Native American students: A review of the research literature
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
Access to success initiative
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Opening doors to earning credentials: Changing courses - Instructional innovations that help low income students succeed in community college
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
The road ahead: Improving diversity in graduate education
Investing in change: How much do Achieving the Dream colleges spend - and from what resources - to become data-driven institutions
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Lumina Foundation Lessons: When networks build a platform, students step up
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Attendance and completion patterns
Recommendations for incorporating postsecondary and workforce data into statewide longitudinal data systems
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
The case to adopt common college- and career-ready standards (state cards)
Using data to increase student success: A focus on diagnosis: Principles and practices of student success
Latinos and the culture of college: How to build a commitment-to-college curriculum
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Engaging faculty in the Achieving the Dream initiative: Principles and practices of student success
The effects of public support on college attainment
Academic progress/graduation success rate study of Division I NCAA women’s and men’s basketball tournament teams
Developmental Education Initiative: State policy framework and strategy
Special report on the transfer admission process: National Association for College Admission Counseling
Rising to the challenge: Meaningful assessment of student learning
Scaling up learning communities: The experience of six community colleges
Terms of engagement: Men of color discuss their experiences in community college
Fueling the race to postsecondary success: A 48-institution study of prior learning assessment and adult student outcomes
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
Does extending foster care beyond age 18 promote postsecondary educational attainment?
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
Grantmakers for Education
Improving public education: A guide for donors to make a difference
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES)
Five strategies to help low-income adults and youth attain community college credentials
Insulating the education pipeline to increase postsecondary success
Understanding the working college student
The power of the education-industry partnership: Fostering innovation in collaboration between community colleges and businesses
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
The impact of Pell grants on academic outcomes for low-income California community college students
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Achieving success: The latest news in promoting community college success
Getting past go: Remedial and developmental education policy at a crossroads
College success for all: How the Hidalgo independent school district is adopting early college as a district-wide strategy
Access without equity: Longitudinal analysis of institutional stratification by race and ethnicity: 1972-2004
The educational experience of young men of color: Capturing the student voice
The educational experience of young men of color (website)
One degree of separation: How young Americans who don't finish college see their chances for success
The college completion agenda: State capitals campaign 2011
A green career pathways framework: Postsecondary and employment success for low-income, disconnected youth
Latino college completion: Texas
If only we told our story better...Reenvisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
Boosting college completion for a new economy
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
Graduating at-risk students: a cross-sector analysis
From GED to college degree: Creating pathways to postsecondary success for high school dropouts
Unlocking potential: Results of a national survey of postsecondary education in state prisons
Plugged in: Positive development strategies for disconnected Latino youth
Postsecondary and labor force transitions among public high school career and technical education participants
Scaling up is hard to do: Progress and challenges during the first year of Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
Latino college completion: State series
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of credential completers
Performance-based funding: A re-emerging strategy in public higher education financing
Improving community college success
More is less: Extra time does little to boost college grad rates
Keeping students enrolled: How community colleges are boosting financial resources for their students
Everybody ready for college
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
A report of GAO undercover testing on for-profit colleges: GAO bias evident in report to HELP committee
Improving undergraduate learning: Findings and policy recommendations from the SSRC-CLA longitudinal project
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Ensuring success for returning veterans
Closing the college completion gap: A guidebook for the faith community
Benefitting whom? For-profit education companies and the growth of military educational benefits
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Improving child care access to promote postsecondary success among low-income parents
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges
An analysis of inquiry, nonstart and drop reasons in nontraditional university student populations
How non-academic supports work: Four mechanisms for improving student outcomes
Adult College Completion Network
Education as a data-driven enterprise: A primer for leaders in business, philanthropy, and education

 

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