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Author(s):Institute for Higher Education Policy
Title:Getting through college: Voices of low-income and minority students in New England
Source:http://www.ihep.org/Pubs/PDF/Nelliemae.pdf
Date:2001
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Short Description:This report offers a unique opportunity to see how low-income and minority students are faring in a region of the country that includes a diverse array of public and private higher education.
Annotation:While prior national and state-level studies regarding student persistence have identified obstacles challenging disadvantaged students, this report focuses specifically on low-income and minority students enrolled at four-year institutions in New England. It offers a unique opportunity to see how low-income and minority students are faring in a region of the country that includes a diverse array of public and private higher education.
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State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Reauthorizing ESEA: Considerations for dropout prevention and recovery
Meeting the challenge: The role of school leaders in turning around the lowest-performing high schools
A new vision to increase the academic achievement for English language learners and immigrant students
The impact of teacher experience
When opportunity knocks, who answers? New evidence on college achievement awards
GetMeToCollege.org: For undocumented students
College choice process of Latino undocumented students: Implications for recruitment and retention
Dollars for degrees: Structuring post-secondary scholarships to increase student success
Proposed legislative changes to the post-9/11 GI Bill: Potential implications for veterans and colleges
Student poll: Many college-bound students report difficulty affording a college education
Federal Student Aid strategic plan: FY 2011-15
Why is college so expensive?
GetMeToCollege.org (How to prepare, pay for, and succeed in college for first-generation college students)
Postsecondary educational trajectories of urban youth: Addressing vulnerabilities and barriers to enrollment and persistence
How America pays for college 2010: A national study by Sallie Mae and Gallup
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Complete to compete: Common college completion metrics
Framework for providing all students an opportunity to learn through reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Postsecondary success
A decade of undergraduate student aid: 1989-90 to 1999-2000
How America saves for college: 2010
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Dual enrollment: A strategy for educational advancement of all students
Community colleges as gateway and gatekeeper: Moving beyond the access "saga" to outcome equity
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
The Equity Scorecard: A collaborative approach to assess and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in student outcomes
The economic benefits from halving Indianapolis's dropout rate: A boon to regional business
Bridging the gaps to success: Promising practices for promoting transfer among low-income and first generation students: An in-depth study of six exemplary community colleges in Texas
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
The next step in systems-building: Early childhood advisory councils and federal efforts to promote policy alignment in early childhood
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Special populations: Tips for completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
Higher education success among historically marginalized males
Steps to success: Analyzing milestone achievement to improve community college student outcomes
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
ACE Online Information Center
Does money matter? II
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report
Is university education in Canada more affordable than in the United States?: A Review of the Argument Presented in The affordability of university education: A perspective from both sides of the 49th parallel
Affordability of UNCF-member institutions
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2009
Guiding the way to higher education: Families, counselors, and communities together
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
Effective college access, persistence and completion programs and strategies for underrepresented student populations: Opportunities for scaling up
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)
Interview with Anthony P. Carnevale
The financial aid challenge: Successful practices that address the underutilization of financial aid in community colleges
What educators should learn from ER
Getting ready for college: Financial concerns and preparation among the high school senior class of 2003-04
Hispanics, high school dropouts, and the GED
Raising their voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the dropout epidemic
What's possible: Turning around America's lowest achieving schools
Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP)
Interventions to support readiness, recruitment, access, transition, and retention for postsecondary education success: An equity of opportunity policy and practice analysis
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
Paying for college: Students from middle-income backgrounds
Complete College America
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
"The State of College Savings Survey" finds parent confidence crashing as they rely on loans, shift debt burden to their children
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Lumina Foundation Focus: Off the charts: Columns of data provide support for student achievement
PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success)
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Top 50 Colleges for African Americans
Reaching higher with accountability (working paper)
Education Finance Council (EFC)'s financial literacy homepage
Education Finance Council
Parent expectations and planning for college: Statistical analysis report
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth
Get-recruited.com
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11
Low-income students and college success: More than money
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Economic mobility: Is the American Dream alive and well?
Orphan Foundation of America
Center for native education
Transfer access to elite colleges and universities in the United States: Threading the needle of the American dream
Education pays 2007: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Community college fast facts
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
The Breakthrough High School project
Higher education accountability for student learning
Asian Pacific Islander American Students and U.S. high schools
Education longitudinal study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A first look at the initial postsecondary experiences of the high school Sophomore class of 2002
A new majority: Low income students in the South's public schools
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
Student loans and public accountability
Wrestling rising costs with innovation
Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07
Choosing Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): A closer look at Latino students college choices
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation graduate scholarship program
Knocking at the college door: California state report
Helping families finance college: Improved student loan disclosures and counseling
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
AB 540 is a change in the law: Higher education is now more affordable for California's immigrant students
Fact book bulletin: Latest data confirms a college affordability gap for students from middle- and lower-income families
Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Opening Doors project publications
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
Addressing the needs of adult learners
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: Frequently asked questions
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
Federal student financial aid: A national profile of programs in Title IV of the higher education act
Opening the door to the American Dream: Increasing higher education access and success for immigrants
Childcare and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
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
Building bridges to college and careers: Contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges
The campus-based financial aid programs: A review and analysis of the allocation of funds to institutions and the distribution of aid to students
Consolidation loans: Redesign options and considerations
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward
Thinking outside the box: Policy strategies for readiness, access, and success
Hidden in plain sight: Adult learners forge a new tradition in higher education
Serving adult learners in higher education: Principles of effectiveness
Costs, prices, and affordability
Going to the source: A practical way to simplify the FAFSA
Inventing Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs): The basics
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Hitting home: Quality, cost, and access challenges confronting higher education today
Financial aid for Native American students
Opening doors: Promoting student success in community college and beyond
Every child, every promise: Turning failure into action
Education Trust, Inc
Course corrections: Experts offer solutions to the college cost crisis
Income of U.S. workforce projected to decline if education doesn't improve
NCHEMS information center
National college access network
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
Undocumented immigrant students: A very brief overview of access to higher education in California
U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit
State higher education finance: FY 2003
Policies in sync: Appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in higher education
Financing higher education
Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Private scholarships count: Access to higher education and the critical role of the private sector
Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works
Private loans and choice in financing higher education
A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance
No merit in these scholarships
Debt burden: Repaying student debt
Socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and selective college admissions
Knocking at the college door: Projections of high school graduates by state, income, and race/ethnicity
College knowledge: What Latino parents need to know and why they don't know it
Under-prepared community college students: Implications of attitudinal and experiential differences
Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.
Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities
The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain
The policy of choice: Expanding student options in higher education
It’s all relative: The role of parents in college financing and enrollment
Challenging times, clear choices: An action agenda for college access and success
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
Preserving access with excellence: Financing for rural community colleges
Responding to the crisis in college opportunity
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
College affordability in jeopardy: The rising price of higher education
Unequal opportunity: Disparities in college access among the 50 states
Gender gap grows
High school guidance counselors: Facilitators or preemptors of social stratification in education
Perceptions of college financial aid among California Latino youth
Internet inequalities: Financial aid, the internet, and low-income students
Merit aid and college access
Midwest PERL: Postsecondary education resource library
Contending with financial inequality
Taxing matters
Fixing the formula: A new approach to determining independent students' ability to pay for college
Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Higher education for undocumented students: The case for open admission and in-state tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status
Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions
NDSFA: Recommendations for improving federal aid delivery
NDSFA: State financial aid and college access
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
Creating college opportunity for all: Prepared students and affordable colleges
Minority teacher/special education services scholarship
Financial aid issues for students from low income families
Cashing in on the GI bill
Mortgaging our future: How financial barriers to college undercut America's global competitiveness
Yes we can: Telling truths and dispelling myths about race and education in America
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
A test of leadership: Charting the future of U.S. higher education
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
American Indian college fund
Education pays 2006: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states
Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act
Fall 2011: Estimated headcount enrollment and Pell Grant trends
State policy profiles for completion by design
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
The economic value of opportunity youth
12 for 2012: Issues to move education forward in 2012
Assets & opportunity scorecard
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Pathways to success: Integrating learning with life and work to increase national college completion
Degreeless in debt: What happens to borrowers who drop out
Grading student loans
Survey of state tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities: 2010-11
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
A stronger nation through higher education: A detailed look at college attainment-nationally, by state and by metro area
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress
Tuition and Fees in the West 2011-12
Trends in public higher education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, revenues and expenditures
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Replenishing opportunity in America: The 2012 midterm report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success Initiative
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
New Americans in postsecondary education: A profile of immigrant and second-generation American undergraduates
2012 Household financial planning survey
Employees in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 and student financial aid, academic year 2010-11 - first look
National student aid profile: Overview of 2012 federal programs
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for Hispanic students
Advancing to completion: Increasing degree attainment by improving graduation rates and closing gaps for African-American students
A record one-in-five households now owe student loan debt
Making loans work: How community colleges support responsible borrowing
Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition
The College Match Program
Linking costs and postsecondary degrees: Key issues for policymakers
Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs
Front and center: Critical choices for higher education
Achieving success: The latest news in achieving community college success (2011)
Driving innovation: How six states are organizing to improve outcomes in developmental education
Trends in student aid 2010
Veteran's education benefits: Enhanced guidance and collaboration could improve administration of the Post-911 GI Bill program
Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Speaking of salaries: What it will take to get qualified, effective teachers in all classrooms
Analysis of preliminary FY2009 2-year cohort default rates
Economic change effects on men and implications for the education of boys
Community college students and grant aid: Bringing equity to the provision of grant aid by states and institutions
Wealth, income, and academic achievement in the college-going process
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 3: Student achievement at 8th grade
School tracking and access to higher education among disadvantaged groups
Higher education findings from a nationwide bipartisan survey of 872 respondents age 18-34
Performance-based scholarships: Emerging findings from a national demonstration
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
Affordable at last: A new student loan system
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
Advocacy in action toolkit
Challenging success: Can college degree completion be increased as states cut budgets?
College Savings Foundation: 2011 Survey of parents
Trends in community college education: Enrollment, prices, student aid, and debt levels
Testing the impact of Higher Achivement's year-round out-of-school-time program on academic outcomes
Recruitment, retention and the minority teacher shortage
Community college access and affordability for occupational and nontraditional students
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
Higher education, merit-based scholarships and post-baccalaureate migration
What works for Latino student success in higher education: 2012 Compendium, profiles of selected programs
Inseparable imperatives: Equity in education and the future of the American economy
Challenge the status quo: Academic success among school-age African-American males
Regardless of the cost, college still matters
The role of tuition, financial aid policies, and student outcomes on average student debt
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
Aligning competencies to rigorous standards for off-track youth: A case study of Boston Day and Evening Academy